When I read all these arguments about Dylan and whether he is amazing or not people seem to forget that he was only a "kid", 22 years old, when The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was first released. He has said that he wrote many of the songs before even his self titled came out in '62, making him around the age of 20 or 21. Now how many people can say that they or their favorite band/lyricist have written such profound lyrics, as Bob Dylan, at that age?
And when I say profound, I don't mean lyrics that are good and touch you in some special way, I mean lyrics that can call the attention of great poets such as Allen Ginsberg (one of the most important poets of the latter half of the 20th century), who has said Dylan to be the perfect lyric poet and the greatest poet of this half of this century.
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