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‘Written in my soul from me to you:’ Some Bob Dylan lyrics

FILE - This July 22, 2012, file photo shows U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing onstage at "Les Vieilles Charrues" Festival in Carhaix, western France. Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, announced Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)
FILE - This July 22, 2012, file photo shows U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing onstage at "Les Vieilles Charrues" Festival in Carhaix, western France. Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, announced Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, lauded for creating “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Here are lyrics from just a few of the hundreds of songs that he has written over his career.

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you call him a man?

Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?