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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.

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