Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offe… - Leonard Cohen

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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

perfection light living determination

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About Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (21 September 1934 - 7 November 2016) was a Canadian poet, songwriter, singer, and novelist noted for the bold exploration of religion, politics, sexuality, personal relationships and personal isolation in his works.

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Birth Name: Leonard Norman Cohen

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

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything

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

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

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"The Dream"

"O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me.
At last, he said to himself, the spirit
has taken up some of the heavy work."

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

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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