Explain this quote:?

Question

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be." -- ROBERT ZIMMERMAN (Bob Dylan)

Answer 1

mate you would have to take the same amount of acid and lsd as him to understand him

Answer 2

Means that he accepts things as they are.

Answer 3

I think that it is trying to say that he lives by his own rules and does not care about what other people are doing. Other people might have other opinions about what this quote means but I am pretty sure that that is what it means.

Answer 4

He doesn't judge anything before he experiences it. No preconceived notions.

Answer 5

It means they don't expect anything to be anything before they experience. or He takes things he experiences and doesn't expect anything out of them in particular.