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Yeah, this article is a few years old now but I only found it recently.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/leonard-cohen-remembering-the-...

Leonard Cohen: Remembering the Life and Legacy of the Poet of Brokenness
For nearly half a century, the novelist, ladies’ man and Buddhist monk built a tower of song – even though darkness was never far off

When I first started writing, lo these many years ago, it was because someone introduced me to Leonard Cohen. Before he was a singer/songwriter, he was a poet, and that poetry translated perfectly to his music.

This article can be seen as his obituary. It came out not long after his death, which, coming as it did in early November of 2016, capped that shit sundae of a year with a rotten cherry.

Leonard Cohen was the poet of brokenness.

I've written before of the link I feel exists between depression and creativity. Nowhere was that link more apparent than with Cohen.

There's nothing I can do to improve on either Cohen or this article, so I'm not even going to try. I'll have more to say about him later. But I will post an example of what I'm talking about.



There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.