Expecting Rain

Nice little challenge:

What do you think are Dylan's most poetic short string of words, limited to, let's say, a handful of words?

I love: "that silver, singin' river" from Tomorrow is a Long Time and "you who philosophize disgrace" from The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.

... evening's empire has returned into sand

power and greed and corruptible seed

even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt

or:
can you cook and sew make flowers grow?

Great thread!

"Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides"

serious:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon

Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended

Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?

Their Religion of Little Tin Women

All my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime
Could never do you justice in reason or rhyme

Blowin in the wind...
&
They sat together in the park
as the evening sky grew dark...

Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

There's a moment when
All things become new again

I love all of your input!

a magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped

'I thought so sublime', no?

But I'll see you in the sky above/in the tall grass, in the ones I love...

Einstein "reciting the alphabet" (i.e. E= mc squared etc) is just the most elegant put-down going.

There's a woman on my lap and she's drinking champagne

- but enough about me, back to the thread topic.


Twilight on the frozen lake
North wind about to break
On footprints in the snow
Silence down below

a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears

When they tried to strangle Larry, Joey almost hit the roof.
He went out that night to seek revenge, thinkin' he was bulletproof.