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> [I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-don-t-know-if-i-call-myself-a-poet-or-not-i-would-like-to-but-i-m/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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> [Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/everybody-has-their-own-idea-of-what-s-a-poet-robert-frost-president/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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> [Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/praise-be-to-nero-s-neptune-the-titanic-sails-at-dawn-and-everybody-s/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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## More by Bob Dylan

> [The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-hollow-horn-plays-wasted-words-proves-to-warn-that-he-not-busy/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Don't forget to support your public library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/don-t-forget-to-support-your-public-library/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-don-t-count-the-dead-when-god-s-on-your-side/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [She makes love just like a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/she-makes-love-just-like-a-woman/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/silvio-i-gotta-go-find-out-something-only-dead-men-know/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [I don't really have a retirement plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-don-t-really-have-a-retirement-plan/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/just-a-reminder-if-you-tell-anyone-about-what-happened-with-jonah/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/little-red-wagon-little-red-bike-i-ain-t-no-monkey-but-i-know-what-i/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/twenty-years-of-schooling-and-they-put-you-on-the-day-shift-look-out/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-drunken-politician-leaps-upon-the-street-where-mothers-weep-and/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/your-eyes-are-like-two-jewels-in-the-sky/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-gotta-friend-who-spends-his-life-stabbing-my-picture-with-a-bowie/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/she-speaks-with-a-stutter-and-she-and-she-walks-with-a-hop-i-don-t/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-man-in-the-coon-skin-cap-in-the-pig-pen-wants-eleven-dollar-bills/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

> [Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/don-t-put-my-faith-in-nobody-not-even-a-scientist/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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