She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.


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Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now
BOB DYLAN
The city is one very long poem. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates wi...
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Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
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Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
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Blonde on Blonde.
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You're gonna have to serve somebody.
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I'm not a playwright.
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All I can be is me- whoever that is.
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[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
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I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
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May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
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I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
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When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
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I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
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There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th...
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I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t...
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reality has too many heads
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Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in ...
BOB DYLAN
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...
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they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflect...
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I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...
BOB DYLAN
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...
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Once upon a time You dressed so fine
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I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
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In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s...
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She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
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The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it di...
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