#Marianne Ihlen

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leonard cohen's note to marianne ihlen, 1963.

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A letter sent from Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen, dated December 24, 1960

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Leonard Cohen letter to Marianne Ihlen, Saint Jean-sur-Richelieu, 26 June 1961

Leonard Cohen met Marianne Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. The pair shared a long and chaotic romance that inspired a catalogue of Cohen songs — like So Long Marianne, Bird on the Wire, and Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye — and left behind a legacy of over 50 love letters.

Cohen admits that although it’s been a year since they last saw each other, he is unable to move on — and is departing Hydra the next day to see her in Norway. He writes, ‘I must see again what happens to us when we are together, perhaps it will be nothing, perhaps everything. Anyhow, we shall see and speak and touch and if it is nothing we shall say so. If it is nothing I’ll get on with my life and you with yours and all we’ll keep of one another will be a few months of sun and a long journey north. At least we will be able to say goodbye, something we have never managed.’

He wouldn’t manage that goodbye until the very end of their lives, when he heard that she was dying and wrote her a final letter in 2016. It ended, ‘You know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.’

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New "So Long Marianne" trailer!

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"We need to be with each other this minute, nothing to say, but I want to be talking to you now, so this letter, another part of our mysterious enduring love. I put steel strings on my guitar, that's like changing from underwear to armour, that's New York City. Given up plans for sainthood, revolution, redemptive visions, music mastery, just the ageing man with a notebook, happiest when alone in a Puerto Rican restarant, coffee and spanish juke-box, and I've crossed the equator of my very cold heart and I'm a human again, a second here and there.

I'm worried that you're lonely sometimes I stop and I feel you wanting things I haven't given you. Tell me. I know that we'll be seeing each other very soon."

Leonard Cohen, 'Bleeker Street and Nico', New York, 9 April 1967

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Leonard Cohen's letter to Marianne Ihlen

Montreal, 28 January 1961

He closes, “I want to hear about you, whatever plans you have made. I think I know what has happened but I want you to tell me.”

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From Leonard Cohen's final letter to his dying muse, Marianne Ihlen. She died in July 2016, and Cohen followed her shortly after, dying in November 2016.

"Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that l've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road."

- Leonard Cohen

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A bit late for Valentine's, but then, Marianne and Leonard left a lot of things until too late.

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“It’s come to this time when we are really so old, and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.” 

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Maxence Fermine racconta la storia d'amore fra Leonard Cohen e Marianne Ihlen: "Dance me to the end of love" - recensione di Giuseppe Iannozzi

Lo scrittore Maxence Fermine racconta la storia d’amore fra Leonard Cohen e Marianne Ihlen: “Dance me to the end of love” di Giuseppe Iannozzi Maxence Fermine, autore francese molto noto in Italia, soprattutto per “La trilogia dei colori: Neve – Il violino nero – L’apicoltore”, omaggia Leonard Cohen con un romanzo breve, “Dance me to the end of love” (AnimaMundi Edizioni). Il nuovo lavoro di…

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One of the best documentaries I’ve seen! It is truly as poetic as documentary.

It was very healing to see people who stay dear and near to each other no-matter-what-happens.

People’s lives and choices can be so awkward, irrational, strange, but the meaningful attempts and close bonds usually keep people together.

Many thanks for this piece of art!

I have never told it, but this film risks to become my favorite one… 🤫

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