What did Leonard Cohen mean by: Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say. - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada Copy
+ You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. Feraz Zeid, July 13, 2023January 10, 2024, Leonard Cohen, Emotional, Masterpiece, Slips, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms Feraz Zeid, October 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Leonard Cohen, Arms, Dream, Lying, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Leonard Cohen, Human, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ Pay attention to the cracks, because that’s where the light gets in. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Cohen, Attention, Cracks, Light, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Cohen, Eye, Sight, Wonder, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Leonard Cohen, Lovers, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Cohen, Expectations, Risk, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
+ Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention. Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Leonard Cohen, Art, Intention, Poetry, 0 - Leonard Cohen Singer-songwriter · Canada
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. - Jean-Marie Le Pen Politician · France
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment. - Jean-Pierre de Caussade Priest · France
I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I’m free… to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t. I can. And my children will. - Jefferson Smith Historian · USA