And she came in there with her little basket, with her little baby and she was crying to this Greek lady. Describing the first meeting of Cohen and Ihlen, Mollestad said: “When Marianne came to Hydra after giving birth in Norway, her husband was not there. And then I kissed her on the head and left the room, and said 'so long, Marianne.'"Ĭohen had first met Ihlen on the Greek Island of Hydra after her first husband, a famous Norwegian writer, had left her, following the birth of their son. I wrote a letter back to Leonard saying in her final moments I hummed ‘A Bird on a Wire’ because that was the song she felt closest to. “Only two days later she lost consciousness and slipped into death. "When I read the lines 'stretch out your hand,' she stretched out her hand,” he continued. More: Leonard Cohen’s Jewish Faith Leads To Rearranged Dates But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. "'And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. “'Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.
“It said, ‘well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon,'” Mollestad recalled. Two hours after sending the letter to Cohen he received a letter in return, which he brought to the hospital to read to Ihlen the next day. Speaking to CBC radio, her close friend Jan Christian Mollestad said he had written to Cohen after he found out Ihlen was dying of leukaemia.
Leonard Cohen wrote one final letter to his muse Marianne Ihlen before her death Ihlen and Cohen had been lovers in the 1960s and she served as the inspiration for some of his most famous songs, including ‘Bird on a Wire’ and ‘So Long, Marianne’. Leonard Cohen penned one final letter to his muse Marianne Ihlen before her death on July 29th at the age of 81, her friend has revealed.
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