and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
It's not easy to define poetry.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.
I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.