I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist." - Meaning and context.">
Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)

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 myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

— Bob Dylan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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 myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist." in the context of "Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bob Dylan

About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".