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Bob Dylan, Still Knocking On Our Door!
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"Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature for songwriting. He is a poet, but his medium is not the page. So yes his lines read different when you take away the music. But by reintroducing poetry to an existing popular musical genre, Dylan opened up possibilities for all poets. What Dylan understood very early is that in an electric age, poetry cannot survive without song."
"The separation of the arts may be a condition of our modernity, but the reunification of the arts is a hopeful move and Dylan led the way. The divorce between poetry and song, which has continued to the point where poetry today can’t be memorized, and therefore isn’t remembered by large numbers of people – was a huge loss for poetry and certainly one reason why many poets today are haunted by a lack of audience."
"Bob Dylan took a different path, and not an easy one. He reunited poetry and music, invigorating the simple rock and roll form, extending it at times into a complex phantasmagoria, and infusing its language with verbal complexity, irony, strong imagery, and wit. And it was a blessing to us all. Because actually people do need poetry – they just can’t always find it in poems." - Harriet Monroe
"The separation of the arts may be a condition of our modernity, but the reunification of the arts is a hopeful move and Dylan led the way. The divorce between poetry and song, which has continued to the point where poetry today can’t be memorized, and therefore isn’t remembered by large numbers of people – was a huge loss for poetry and certainly one reason why many poets today are haunted by a lack of audience."
"Bob Dylan took a different path, and not an easy one. He reunited poetry and music, invigorating the simple rock and roll form, extending it at times into a complex phantasmagoria, and infusing its language with verbal complexity, irony, strong imagery, and wit. And it was a blessing to us all. Because actually people do need poetry – they just can’t always find it in poems." - Harriet Monroe
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"Bob Dylan is, without question, a musical genius. He’s a legend, a hero, an absolute icon. But a Nobel laureate in literature?"
"When the Swedish Academy announced this morning that Dylan had won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, I couldn’t help but think of a bit of writing wisdom that’s trickled down from Aristotle. The contemporary version of this little chestnut goes something like this: The ending of a story should be both surprising and inevitable."
"And it certainly was surprising and inevitable. Surprising because, while he’s written numerous books, Bob Dylan is primarily a songwriter and performer, not a poet, playwright, journalist, or fiction writer, and inevitable because, as an absolute titan in the music world who’s long been beloved for his lyrics, odds-makers have had Dylan on their radar for the prize for years."
"If Dylan’s Nobel Prize is another accolade for which he’s probably too cool, then it strikes me as a double shame for writers like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A.S. Byatt, and Don Delillo, Philip Roth, who’ve long been believed to be Nobel possibilities. They’ll just have to wait in the wings once more, only this time, it’ll be in deference to a rock star." -Nate Brown
"When the Swedish Academy announced this morning that Dylan had won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, I couldn’t help but think of a bit of writing wisdom that’s trickled down from Aristotle. The contemporary version of this little chestnut goes something like this: The ending of a story should be both surprising and inevitable."
"And it certainly was surprising and inevitable. Surprising because, while he’s written numerous books, Bob Dylan is primarily a songwriter and performer, not a poet, playwright, journalist, or fiction writer, and inevitable because, as an absolute titan in the music world who’s long been beloved for his lyrics, odds-makers have had Dylan on their radar for the prize for years."
"If Dylan’s Nobel Prize is another accolade for which he’s probably too cool, then it strikes me as a double shame for writers like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A.S. Byatt, and Don Delillo, Philip Roth, who’ve long been believed to be Nobel possibilities. They’ll just have to wait in the wings once more, only this time, it’ll be in deference to a rock star." -Nate Brown
Bob Dylan teases 2026 tour extension
"Dylan released his last studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, in 2020, and has been touring it across the world for the last four years since concerts returned once Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were lifted."
"Despite the album being released half a decade ago, Dylan has no plans to stop hitting the road with his current show."
"Taking to X, Dylan shared with his followers on November 13th, “To all fans and followers of Rough and Rowdy Ways Show . We will see you early Spring 2026, will let you know where and when later .”
"He has not specified where he is planning to bring the tour in early 2026, but it’ll likely be North America, considering he’s playing in the UK currently." MORE
Marie Mallory
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I remember Dylan as a young man saying something about living past 30.
He said " people over 30 should die, or something like that, I see he doesn't feel that way now, lol.
He said " people over 30 should die, or something like that, I see he doesn't feel that way now, lol.
Marie Mallory
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Dylan was a great song writer and had a unique voice.
"Dylan finally spoke about being awarded the Nobel Prize over two weeks after it was announced he was receiving the honour."
“It’s hard to believe,” he told the Daily Telegraph in an interciew. “[Being awarded the Nobel Prize is] amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?”
"Asked why he chose to stay silent about it for so long, Dylan only replied: “Well, I’m right here.”
“It’s hard to believe,” he told the Daily Telegraph in an interciew. “[Being awarded the Nobel Prize is] amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?”
"Asked why he chose to stay silent about it for so long, Dylan only replied: “Well, I’m right here.”
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