Bad review of Bob Dylan

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"Great poets write great poems. They don’t compose two or three great lines, then spackle the gaps between them with verbal polyfilla. Philip Larkin would leave half-finished poems in a drawer for decades until he found the right lines to complete them. Let’s reserve the word “poet” for writers who respect language enough to do things like that."

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/bob-dylan-a-great-poet-a-great-delusion-more-like-it-20220502-p5ahrz.html