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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have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE It takes one person to rewrite the history book. J.R. RIM One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting th... MADI DIAZ The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt... CHINA MIéVILLE To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u... LADY GREGORY I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords ... CLIVE DAVIS The French poet Mallarmé and, after him, Borges, claimed that “everything in the world exists to ... MIRELLA MUFFAROTTO A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself. AULIQ ICE I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited fo... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning ... SHARON OLDS Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ... KATE DICAMILLO It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired b... ED SHEERAN The way she hammered off from the lead and challenged people to come after her was an attitude hande... CHANDRA CRAWFORD My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm lef... KAREN QUAN I've been in love with you since you helped me bury that spider in my garden, and you sang with me l... AMY HARMON The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw... DEAN AMBROSE Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning... LAURIE MARKATOS The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be a... GEORGE W. BUSH I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. ... NICOLA HAKEN My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,... LAURENT BRANCOWITZ The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... JOHN MELLENCAMP Every song I've ever written was while I'm really emotional, maybe happy or maybe sad. Writing songs... SEVERIN BOZUNG My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree... JOHN UPDIKE 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wis... JESSYE NORMAN I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Ye... BETTY FRIEDAN Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out ... LAURENCE STERNE When I step out of the role you have written for me
you make me feel like a plagiarist.
from the pla... NEIL SIMON One time a guy handed me a picture. He said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every pict... MITCH HEDBERG There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier... ROBERT ADAMSON Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me mus... ED SHEERAN I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l... RANDY NEWMAN Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely hall... NITHIN PURPLE He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I... RICHELLE MEAD It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I... ROSAMUND HODGE That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l... ALVIN LEE Then the part comes to me and it fits like a glove because it's actually written about me, ... All I... DAVID CARRADINE I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at... SANOBER KHAN It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a p... JOAN ROSCOE Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great. NELSON RIOS Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. TOBA BETA There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My ear... ROBERT ADAMSON Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a b... MARGUERITE YOUNG An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all thing... THOMAS TRAHERNE Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's... CRAIG GROESCHEL Every time I told them a true bit, it got a bigger reaction than any of the jokes I had written, DAVE GORMAN For the longest time my company is what got me up in the morning. It was what motivated me every sec... SAMANTHA YOUNG And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century... ANNA AKHMATOVA I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated ma... RON PEARSON My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t... DEBI MAZAR All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...an... TERRI WINDLING Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi... CARDINAL RICHELIEU Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang hi... CARDINAL RICHELIEU Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression. CARMINE COPPOLA More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in ... ANDREW MOTION Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. FRANZ KAFKA 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the book... RACHEL GIBSON The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were n... MARKELLE GRABO Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an ... CHRISTO Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own int... WILLIAM STYRON Pieces of me, I'm giving to you.
In the words that I say and the things that I do. SHELLI THOMPSON It was Jon’s birthday. And after you know somebody for 25 years it’s hard to get’em something ... RICHIE SAMBORA And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like mo... GAYLE FORMAN I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not... BOB DYLAN I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... WALTER DEAN MYERS I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. Th... RACHEL KUSHNER He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ... GEORGE SAND There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me ... ANNE CARSON He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu... CASSANDRA CLARE I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right pa... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future. CHERISE WOLAS Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my m... RACHAEL RAY In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it li... MARC FORSTER Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN ...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns... JOHN GEDDES Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. AMIT RAY
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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. BOB DYLAN A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. BOB DYLAN It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring. BOB DYLAN Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. BOB DYLAN In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw ... BOB DYLAN Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v... BOB DYLAN Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. BOB DYLAN I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. BOB DYLAN When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? BOB DYLAN I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion... BOB DYLAN I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know fo... BOB DYLAN Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade ... BOB DYLAN I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. BOB DYLAN There is nothing so stable as change. BOB DYLAN All I can do is be me, whoever that is. BOB DYLAN If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. BOB DYLAN I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. BOB DYLAN I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth... BOB DYLAN Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. BOB DYLAN A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha... BOB DYLAN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act. BOB DYLAN Money doesn't talk, it swears. BOB DYLAN I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ... BOB DYLAN I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j... BOB DYLAN A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does wha... BOB DYLAN You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way what... BOB DYLAN I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo... BOB DYLAN Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole... BOB DYLAN To live outside the law, you must be honest. BOB DYLAN Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. BOB DYLAN Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther... BOB DYLAN In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. BOB DYLAN People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. BOB DYLAN But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. BOB DYLAN Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturb... BOB DYLAN People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun... BOB DYLAN I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, yo... BOB DYLAN Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. BOB DYLAN For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. BOB DYLAN Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b... BOB DYLAN Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how thin... BOB DYLAN Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. BOB DYLAN Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting y... BOB DYLAN The times they are a-changing. BOB DYLAN People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. BOB DYLAN How many roads must a man walk down
Before your can call him a man? . . .
The answer, my frien... BOB DYLAN Blame it on a simple twist of fate. BOB DYLAN Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's ... BOB DYLAN Chaos is a friend of mine. BOB DYLAN Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand BOB DYLAN Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence,... BOB DYLAN He not busy being born is busy dying. BOB DYLAN What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in betwee... BOB DYLAN All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all goin... BOB DYLAN Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Si... BOB DYLAN What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee... BOB DYLAN Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! BOB DYLAN People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed arou... BOB DYLAN Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. BOB DYLAN Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the ... BOB DYLAN In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw ... BOB DYLAN For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. BOB DYLAN I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow... BOB DYLAN All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. BOB DYLAN Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. BOB DYLAN I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. BOB DYLAN It's not easy to define poetry. BOB DYLAN What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in be... BOB DYLAN A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. BOB DYLAN Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. BOB DYLAN Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disa... BOB DYLAN A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. BOB DYLAN All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going... BOB DYLAN And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. BOB DYLAN I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ... BOB DYLAN You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, an... BOB DYLAN What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. BOB DYLAN You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of... BOB DYLAN You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God... BOB DYLAN I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul... BOB DYLAN Don't criticize what you can't understand. BOB DYLAN A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet. BOB DYLAN Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music.... BOB DYLAN I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind th... BOB DYLAN I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul. BOB DYLAN I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the tr... BOB DYLAN I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours BOB DYLAN Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mea... BOB DYLAN The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my la... BOB DYLAN I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believ... BOB DYLAN I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. BOB DYLAN Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison. BOB DYLAN You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. BOB DYLAN When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. BOB DYLAN The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true. BOB DYLAN Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. BOB DYLAN ...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. BOB DYLAN When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't gi... BOB DYLAN Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. BOB DYLAN If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. BOB DYLAN He who is not busy being born is busy dying. BOB DYLAN I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. BOB DYLAN I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soun... BOB DYLAN I never saw myself as a folk singer. BOB DYLAN I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. BOB DYLAN Folk music is a bunch of fat people. BOB DYLAN Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them. BOB DYLAN This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never list... BOB DYLAN May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see t... BOB DYLAN He's written extraordinary songs, hasn't he? I consider him one of the preeminent songwriters of the... BOB DYLAN Look out, kid, it's sumpin' ya did, God knows when, but you're doin' it again BOB DYLAN How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see? BOB DYLAN Yes to dance beneath a diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the... BOB DYLAN I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. B... BOB DYLAN It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me. BOB DYLAN I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I c... BOB DYLAN Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the governmen... BOB DYLAN You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. BOB DYLAN Play it fuckin' loud! BOB DYLAN I kinda live where I find myself. BOB DYLAN I'm inconsistent, even to myself. BOB DYLAN Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain BOB DYLAN Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. BOB DYLAN The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in... BOB DYLAN People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. BOB DYLAN I didn't come out of a cereal box. BOB DYLAN You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're go... BOB DYLAN Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere. BOB DYLAN Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now BOB DYLAN When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in fu... BOB DYLAN And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to st... BOB DYLAN If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will... BOB DYLAN He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ... BOB DYLAN The radio makes hideous sounds. BOB DYLAN Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ... BOB DYLAN I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ... BOB DYLAN I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages BOB DYLAN How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must o... BOB DYLAN To live outside the law you must be honest. BOB DYLAN I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly n... BOB DYLAN i've forgotten more than you'll ever know BOB DYLAN Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane... BOB DYLAN Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on fla... BOB DYLAN Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him. BOB DYLAN You can't be happy by doing something groovy. BOB DYLAN What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob? BOB DYLAN I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. BOB DYLAN Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. BOB DYLAN I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. BOB DYLAN Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's... BOB DYLAN I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. BOB DYLAN I don't believe you. You're a liar. BOB DYLAN Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere. BOB DYLAN I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. BOB DYLAN Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. BOB DYLAN I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. BOB DYLAN What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. BOB DYLAN You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows BOB DYLAN You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning BOB DYLAN You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really ... BOB DYLAN He who's not busy being born is busy dying BOB DYLAN There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. BOB DYLAN You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way. BOB DYLAN Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king. BOB DYLAN Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts BOB DYLAN I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy. BOB DYLAN All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had... BOB DYLAN I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. BOB DYLAN The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind BOB DYLAN 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... BOB DYLAN Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand BOB DYLAN Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn). BOB DYLAN Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. BOB DYLAN Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. BOB DYLAN Blonde on Blonde. BOB DYLAN You're gonna have to serve somebody. BOB DYLAN I'm not a playwright. BOB DYLAN All I can be is me- whoever that is. BOB DYLAN [Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing. BOB DYLAN I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home. BOB DYLAN May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. BOB DYLAN I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary... BOB DYLAN Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? BOB DYLAN People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun... BOB DYLAN When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose. BOB DYLAN I don't think I'm tangible to myself. BOB DYLAN There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th... BOB DYLAN I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t... BOB DYLAN reality has too many heads BOB DYLAN 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... BOB DYLAN they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflect... BOB DYLAN 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... BOB DYLAN Once upon a time You dressed so fine BOB DYLAN I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine. BOB DYLAN In another life, I could have been you," she'd say. "Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s... BOB DYLAN She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back. BOB DYLAN The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it di... BOB DYLAN