Aging Quote by Jay Michaelson

Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his…

— Jay Michaelson

“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.”

— John McWhorter

The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along…

— Jay Michaelson

“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after pain.”

— Avijeet Das

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old…

— Richard F. Thomas

“Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me…

— Arlo Guthrie

“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written…

— John Pudney

“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books in which…

— Leonard Cohen

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

— Tim Kaine

“I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........)”

— Bob Dylan

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous