"I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word."

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“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”

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“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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Journalism1980

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#fear

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