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Poetry is words that are empowered
that make your hair stand on end...
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that you recognize instantly
as being some form of subjective truth...
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that has an objective reality to it,
because somebody's realized it.
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Then you call it poetry later.
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Take this one you sang,
this Hard Rain's Gonna Fall.
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Even though it may have come out
of your feelings about atomic rain.
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No, it wasn't atomic rain, no.
Somebody else thought that, too.
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- It's not atomic rain.
- Go ahead.
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- It's just a hard rain. It's not atomic rain.
- Hard rain.
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All your songs are about more
than the actual event...
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that may have caused it.
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- You know what I mean?
- I'm not a topical songwriter.
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- So you're not a topical songwriter.
- No, I don't really even like that word.
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I mean, it's not a song
about a certain event.
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- Yeah, it's not, no.
- It's beyond that.
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The folk idiom is so widespread...
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that you could take any part of it
and rework a song.
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I never thought
I was breaking through anything.
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I was just working with an existing form
that was there.
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I was definitely not inventing anything
that hadn't been tried before...
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some part of the picture, you know.
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You must learn to control yourselves.
Is this on?
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Check. Richard?
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Is this mike on? Richard.
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You walk into the room
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With your pencil in your hand
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You see somebody naked