“Perhaps you learn with age, the aging process is very important, I think sometimes I might be a teacher.” Leonard Cohen, On Being Asked If He Is A Teacher

Allan Showalter

Are you a teacher?

 

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If I am a teacher I don’t think that my teachings should go into effect until I myself have reached a kind of plane where my experience would be nourishing. If people follow, if people somehow turn on to my work, and turn on to it in the way of education and think that that’s the end, then they’re wrong. I think perhaps you learn with age, the aging process is very important, I think sometimes I might be a teacher.

 

Leonard Cohen

 

An Interview with Leonard Cohen by Michael Harris. Duel: Winter 1969. Photo taken in Edmonton in 1966 by Rocco Caratozzolo, contributed by Kim Solez.

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted May 3, 2018.

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