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"I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep."
"But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
"I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it."
"A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control."
"Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea."
"I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in."
"The less I was of who I was, the better I felt."
"You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself."
"Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care"
"Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms"
"A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees."
"I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too."
"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."
"There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine"
"Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love."
"If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man."
"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
"I couldn't feel so I learned to touch."
"Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own."
"Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will"