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It's impossible to get lost
Aletha 2022-04-12 08:01:01
Everyone in the rock circle knows that he is more sophisticated than anyone else, music fans know that he can only strum those chords, and reporters also know that don't ask him about the profound political orientation of a ballad. His girlfriend, Joan Baez, knew better that he didn't bother to speak up for anything, but none of that prevented Bob Dylan from becoming the most famous protest poet in American folk history, a place where he was too full for anything. In the 1960s of the space, when young people followed Martin Luther King Jr. singing his "Answer Blows in the Wind", he played "Like Like a Folk Liar, Traitor" with the band. A Rolling Stone, who said he was lost, he knew exactly what he wanted.
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan quotes
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Bob Dylan: [while reading a store sign] I'm looking for a place that will collect, clip, bath and return my dog. Kn1 7727, cigarettes and tobacco. Animals and birds bought or sold on commission. animals and birds bought or sold on commission. I want a dog that's gonna collect and clean my bath, return my cigarette, and, and give tobacco to my animals, and give my birds a commission. I want- I'm looking for somebody to sell my dog, collect my clip, buy my animal and straighten out my bird. I'm looking for a place to bathe my bird, buy my dog, collect my clip, sell me cigarrets and comission my bath. I'm looking for a place that's gonna collect my commission, sell my dog, burn my bird, and sell me to the cigarette. Going to bird my buy, collect my will, and bathe my comission. I'm looking for a place that's going to animal my soul, knit my return, bathe my foot and collect my dog. Comission me to sell my animals to the bird to clip and buy my bath and return me back to the cigarettes.
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Allen Ginsberg: There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: "If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure."
Allen Ginsberg: It's sort of a biblical prophecy.
Allen Ginsberg: Poetry is words that are empowered to make your hair stand on end, that you realize instantly as being some form of subjective truth that has an objective reality to it, because somebody has realized it. Then you call it poetry later.