The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

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 to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.