#Beautiful Losers

[metamorphesque]

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

[woundthatswallows]

excerpt from leonard cohen's 1966 novel beautiful losers, from which buffy sainte marie adapted into her phenomenal song god is alive, magic is afoot 

[agirlnamedbone]

one of the best examples of how comically unfaithful to the work literature/poetry excerpts can be is the mass circulation of the leonard cohen line "how can i begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?" which is an excerpt from his novel beautiful losers, in which the narrator is praying to a saint to relieve him of his constipation. the "yesterday in me" is literal shit. fecal matter. he's literally praying for this saint to unclog his fucking colon so he can take a shit. y'all should read books. read books. read books. read whole-ass books.

[grayswan444]

my pockets fr

[wallsandtrains]

Barry McGee - Clare Rojas - Amaze Cincinnati - 2014

[smashing-yng-man]

I am an old scholar; better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. Leonard Cohen

[shilohtx]

sister mary corita kent - god is alive 1 & 2, 1969

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is a caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.”

― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

unhinged shuake

[i-just-sit-in-silence]

Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

[metamorphesque]

"Beautiful Losers", Leonard Cohen

[henrywinterswhore]

anybody else having a leonard cohen summer?

[localrants]

How can I begin any new thing with all of yesterday in me?

-Leonard Cohen, from beautiful losers.

[betakaratene]

Book 1 of 3 that I recently ordered has finally arrived: Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen!

Few remember that before becoming the songwriting legend behind Hallelujah, Bird on the Wire, Suzanne, and Death of a Ladies Man (🎵one of these is not like the others🎵), Leonard Cohen was first a renowned author and poet. Moreover, a review of Beautiful Losers in the Boston Globe that "James Joyce is not dead. He is living in Montreal under the name of Cohen."

I've been wanting to finally read Cohen's writing for years, but until now had only ever gotten my hands on Let Us Compare Mythologies at my old uni's library.

[wallsandtrains]

KR - Cincinnati - 2004

[fuckyeahmrleonardcohen]

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Leonard Cohen, "Beautiful Losers"