I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,

He said to me, “You must not ask for so much.”

And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,

She cried to me, “Hey, why not ask for more?”

—Leonard Cohen, “Bird on a Wire” Ydi8TRafkLD0xJOKwAl7IbnE2q8GDuSF8wlSbfms/voPk3Iq3a1CwPeYE8P0xc1w