Cohen, Leonard

International Herald Tribune (Paris, Nov. 4, 1988)


• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
“A Long Letter from F”


• I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
Book of Mercy


• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that c...
• Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
“F.”


• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
Lawrence Breavman, in The Favourite Game


• The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
“Lines from My Grandfather’s Journal”


• It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make yo...
“Lines From My Grandfather’s Journal”


• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
“On Hearing A Name Long Unspoken”


• History is a needlefor putting men asleepanointed with the poisonOf all they want to keep....
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