"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
"Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing."
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Source: Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.73, McClelland & Stewart
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