Tagarchief: Leonard Cohen

Leaving the Table (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 11 november 2016 door Ingrid

I’m leaving the table I’m out of the game I don’t know the people In your picture frame If I ever loved you, oh no, no It’s a crying shame If I ever loved you If I knew your name … Lees verder →

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Alexandra Leaving (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 29 december 2013 door Ingrid

Suddenly the night has grown colder. Some deity preparing to depart. Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder, they slip between the sentries of your heart. Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure, they gain the light, they formlessly entwine; and radiant beyond … Lees verder →

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The God Abandons Antony (C.P. Cavafy)

Geplaatst op 29 december 2013 door Ingrid

When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive—don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with … Lees verder →

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You’d sing too (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 20 augustus 2013 door Ingrid

You’d sing too if you found yourself in a place like this You wouldn’t worry about whether you were as good as Ray Charles or Edith Piaf You’d sing You’d sing not for yourself but to make a self out … Lees verder →

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Now of Sleeping (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 12 augustus 2013 door Ingrid

Under her grandmother’s patchwork quilt a calico bird’s-eye view of crops and boundaries naming dimly the districts of her body sleeps my Annie like a perfect lady Like ages of weightless snow on tiny oceans filled with light her eyelids … Lees verder →

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Hydra 1960 (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 30 december 2012 door Ingrid

Anything that moves is white, a gull, a wave, a sail, and moves too purely to be aped. Smash the pain. Never pretend peace. The consolumentum has not, never will be kissed. Pain cannot compromise this light. Do violence to … Lees verder →

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As the mist leaves no scar (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 28 juni 2012 door Ingrid

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill, So my body leaves no scar On you, nor ever will. When wind and hawk encounter, What remains to keep? So you and I encounter, Then turn, then fall … Lees verder →

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It’s good to sit with people (Leonard Cohen)

Geplaatst op 27 december 2011 door Ingrid

It’s good to sit with people who are up so late your other homes wash away and other meals you left unfinished on the plate It’s just coffee and a piano … Lees verder →

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Tagarchief: Leonard Cohen

Leaving the Table (Leonard Cohen)

Alexandra Leaving (Leonard Cohen)

The God Abandons Antony (C.P. Cavafy)

You’d sing too (Leonard Cohen)

Now of Sleeping (Leonard Cohen)

Hydra 1960 (Leonard Cohen)

As the mist leaves no scar (Leonard Cohen)

It’s good to sit with people (Leonard Cohen)

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