"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

-- Bob Dylan

#Musician Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.”
“What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.”
“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.”
“No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.”
“It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.”
“Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.”
“So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.”

Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”
“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.”

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