It's easy to disparage Dylan for the albums where first he rocked up (Blonde on Blonde) and then later lay back (Nashville Skyline) but I think those were as great or better than the earlier stuff - and it's true the early stuff is the stock & trade of the guy who learned acoustic guitar in the sixties.

"I started out on Burgundy but soon I hit the harder stuff everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough ..."

or

God said to Abraham "Kill me a son" Abe said "Man, You must be putting me on.."

Leonard Cohen might have said it too but not nearly in the same way, that you'd keep singing it to yourself and laughing with delight over how the words had been assembled.