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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
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Bob Dylan
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 24
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