Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

Home is the place where they have to take you in

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.