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Wire Quotes

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.41, Omnibus Press

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

"At 96, Poet And Beat Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn't Done Yet". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 11, 2015.