{"author":"Leonard Cohen","author_id":"Leonard+Cohen","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["canada","canadians"],"id":13607,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["humanity","life","poetry"],"id":22111,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["cohen","dance","epistemology","knowledge","love","poetry"],"id":38962,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["filhos-da-neve","loss","love","poem","poetry"],"id":39864,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["regret"],"id":48074,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use. ","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["writing","thought","yourself "],"id":49958,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost somewhere in the bed.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["longing"],"id":55719,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"First of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["cohen","leonard","poetry"],"id":57586,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["books"],"id":59486,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Leonard Cohen","tags":["justice","compassion","be true "],"id":65255,"author_id":"Leonard+Cohen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}