Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Quote by Leonard Cohen

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is...

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has...

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has...

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's...

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's...