"...Silver bullet suicides, and messianic ocean tides, and racial roller-coaster rides, and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry."

"And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there, and the moss."

"It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far."

"I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere..."

"Too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove."

"Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes; I thought it was there for good, so I never tried."

"Things are a lot better in Milan. My adventure has sweetened. I met a girl and a poet. One of them was dead and one of them was alive."

"So let me judge your love affair in this very room where I have sentenced mine to death."

"But climb on your tears and be silent, like a rose on its ladder of thorns."

"If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to, and if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you."

"A heavy burden lifted from my soul; I heard that love was out of my control."

"And she comes to his hand but she's not really tame; she longs to be lost, he longs for the same."

"Ah, lover, come and lie with me, if my lover is who you are, and be your sweetest self awhile until I ask for more, my child."

"And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate who in these realms of love, who by something blunt..."

"...and who by avalanche, who by powder, who for his greed, who for his hunger..."

"...and who shall I say is calling?"

"Your saintly kisses reeked of iodine, your fragrance with a fume of iodine, and pity in the room like iodine."

"There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't!"

cohenquote will be on holiday for a week and a half or so. Take care, everyone!

"I don't think of myself as a singer, writer, or any other thing; the job of being a man is much more than any of that."