re: #720 Cato the Elder

Favorite lines:

“Well I’ve been where you’re hanging,
and I think I can see how you’re pinned.
When you’re not feeling holy,
your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.”

There is nothing not perfect about that quatrain.

In fact, I’ll go further. This may sound odd, but to me, Cohen and Dylan were always poets in the greatest tradition of the Tribe. There is something prophetic (and not in the sees the future sense, more in the biblical sense) about them when they are at their best.

I think Cohen is the better poet, but Dylan is more interesting musically.