Nearer to Peace than Poems

Gift
by Leonard Cohen, from The Spice-Box of Earth

   You tell me that silence

is nearer to peace than poems

but if for my gift

I brought you silence

(for I know silence)

you would say

   This is not silence

this is another poem

and you would hand it back to me

[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJgBENcfvug&w=640&h=480]

Cohen, L. (1965). The spice-box of earth. New York: Viking Press. (library)