I received today an email which consisted of the following quotes from Our Man...


"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh." Leonard Cohen

"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin." Leonard Cohen

"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph: killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. " Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. " Leonard Cohen

"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder." Leonard Cohen

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

"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself." Leonard Cohen