Cohen's esthetic sweet and deep melancholy warms my heart up because it shows me that melancholy change into happiness. Not only as far as artistic creation is concerned but also in human every-day -life inventive activities. U have to claim what you can't change at all in/at yourself. Sorry for the...

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I feel I should explain something one more time. I love Jacques Brel but I feel unhappy when I listen to him. It can also occur in everydaylife. I wrote about Brel only to explain what I most often feel when I hear Leonard cohen: real happiness even when he expresses feelings that are not always exa...

You probably know the photo of Brel, Brassens and Leo Ferre sitting together at a radio program a long time ago. Leo ferre was less classical but poetically most powerful. Not so much sadness in him. Or angry sadness . Or something else.

Leonard Cohen's melancoly doesn't have much to do with unhappiness nor with real self hate, maybe not even with black sadness. Even when I feel some kind of little or big "blues", LC's music and poetry make me feel good or at least better contrary to a dead and estimated singer Jacques Bre...