He loved women and women lusted after him. On his second (1969) album Songs From A Room there's Bird On The Wire: "Like a bird on the wire/Like a drunk in a midnight choir/ I have tried in my way to be free." You can't own them, not even a bit of them. All my love, Leonard."Īs Aviva, widow of Irving Layton, a poet who was Leonard's friend, says: "Poets do not make great husbands. It is not for you but for my own conscience that I repeat it." But his sign-off was warm: "Write me and tell me your heart. In a letter from there dated 15 February 1961 he wrote: "Please understand I can promise nothing. He moved between Hydra and his home city Montreal. Leonard may have saved her life and made her love living. They were together for several years, on and off. "We were very happy living in Hydra," she said. She had escaped from a violent marriage and was alone with her son Axel. I wanted to lock him up and swallow the key." She didn't believe him when he said she was the most beautiful women he'd ever seen. The folk singer Julie Felix says Marianne, by nurturing and encouraging, did the same for her.įor Marianne, with Leonard it had been love at first sight: "I remember my eyes met his eyes and I felt it throughout my whole body. "She lamented that she was not to be a writer or a painter but her genius was in finding and honing the strength in others." She came to Cardiff when I was a student and gave me the courage to make my first film. She really listened to people when they talked, she was interested in them and how they worked. "She gave me a sort of romanticism about the world. "Though our time together wasn't long she played a very influential part in my life," says Broomfield. It was a friendship that continued, and he knows what it is to benefit from her help and inspiration.
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