Famous Poet and songwriter of the sixties and on. Many, many songs. From upright Jewish family originally but a deep thinker. This was a song of which he wrote 80 verses over two years. In that time his views moved but I like these shown here because they have a very biblical and spiritual stance that moves me. I feel David, Samson, Jesus etc. in there. It certainkly brings me home; some other verses I am not into. He retired at his height , became a buddhist monk, and entered a monastery for a number of years. He left his lady manager, ex-lover, in charge of his affairs and she blew the lot. When he emerged again he had only $100.000 left. So he had to go back to work.
Leonard Cohen.
Cohen is a very important Canadian poet. The Montrealer certainly had his brush with fame in the mid to late sixties and was still quite popular in the seventies. Mr. Cohen I believe is still creating a wonderfull plethora of work.
And though I like Cohen very much, my favourite modern poets are Wallace Stevens, W.B.Yeats, T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound and Dylan Thomas.