Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
That’s how the light gets in
That’s how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen, lyrics from Anthem
Notes: Photo & Story: Vanity Fair – Leonard Cohen, Influential Singer-Songwriter and Poet, Dead at 82
Dance Me To the End of Love…then dance me to the end.
Yes. Beautiful tribute.
Great poet.
“6. Sit down, master, on this rude chair of praises, and rule my nervous heart with your great decrees of freedom. Out of time you have taken me to do my daily task. Out of mist and dust you have fashioned me to know the numberless worlds between the crown and the kingdom. In utter defeat I came to you and you received me with a sweetness I had not dared to remember. Tonight I come to you again, soiled by strategies and trapped in the loneliness of my tiny domain. Establish your law in this walled place. Let nine men come to lift me into their prayer so that I may whisper with them: Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever and ever.”
found in Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy <3
Diana xo
Awww, thanks for sharing Diana. Beautiful.
🙂
“I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah”
Hallelujah…
We will remember you and your songs.
Yes. That will never fade away.
😢no mas…
yes. r.i.p.
‘…a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in…’
His words are woven into the fabric of my life.
Yes…that’s the punch line Carrie
Pure magic.
An icon…
He was one of kind, a mystical, magical, music man.
Tea and oranges for Billie. I don’t share this story much, but I think Leonard would have approved.
http://srevestories.blogspot.com/2011/08/meeting-leonard-cohen.html
Thanks. I’m sure he would have approved.