Quote of the Day (Leonard Cohen, on What It Took to Gain ‘An Education in the World’)

“I pray that loving memory

exists for them too

the precious ones I overthrew

for an education in the world.”—Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), about his life in Greece in the 1960s, in “Days of Kindness,” from Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993)

(Photo of Leonard Cohen taken during the Geneva concert of the 2008 tour, Oct. 27, 2008, by Rama.)