Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss.

▫️He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.

▫️Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1966. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974). His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away from Cohen's previous minimalist sound.

𝗦𝗔𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦 :
ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴇʏᴇs ᴀʀᴇ ғᴜʟʟ ᴏғ ᴡᴏʀᴅs
ᴀɴᴅ ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴɴᴀ sʜᴏᴜᴛ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ‌ ── ⇆

غم یعنی پُرِ حرفه تو نگات...
بخوای داد بزنی، ولی در نیاد صدات.
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In this earth
In this earth
In this pure farm
Let it sown nothing
Let it sown nothing
But the seeds of kindness and love

✍ Rυмι

بجوشید بجوشید که ما اهل شعاریم
به جز عشق به جز عشق دگر کار نداریم
در این خاک در این خاک در این مزرعه پاک
به جز مهر به جز عشق دگر تخم نکاریم
چه مستیم چه مستیم از آن شاه که هستیم
بیایید بیایید که تا دست برآریم
چه دانیم چه دانیم که ما دوش چه خوردیم
که امروز همه روز خمیریم و خماریم
مپرسید مپرسید ز احوال حقیقت
که ما باده پرستیم نه پیمانه شماریم
شما مست نگشتید وزان باده نخوردید
چه دانید چه دانید که ما در چه شکاریم
نیفتیم بر این خاک ستان ما نه حصیریم
برآییم بر این چرخ که ما مرد حصاریم

✍ مولانا