Poetry Quotes by Bob Dylan

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person.

— Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

— Bob Dylan

“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.”

— 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

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

— Bob Dylan

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet…

— Bob Dylan

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My…

— Bob Dylan

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry…

— Bob Dylan

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul…

— Bob Dylan

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…

— Bob Dylan

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited…

— Bob Dylan

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist,…

— Bob Dylan

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call…

— Bob Dylan

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious…

— Bob Dylan

Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,…

— Bob Dylan

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing…

— Bob Dylan

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…

— Bob Dylan

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make…

— Bob Dylan

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of…

— Bob Dylan