Sara Dylan Sara Dylan Sara Dylan (born October 25, 1939, as Shirley Marlin Noznisky) is the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In 1959, Noznisky was wed to magazine photographer Hans Lownds, during which time she was known as Sara Lownds. Sara married Bob Dylan during a secret ceremony in November 1965, and the couple had four children together. Their marriage is often cited by music writers as the inspiration for many of Dylan's songs created throughout the 1960s and '70s, including "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", and "Sara". The 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks" has
Love Minus Zero/No Limit written as a tribute to Dylan's future wife Sara Lownds. The lyrics reflect her Zen-like detachment through a series of opposites, for example, that she "speaks like silence" and is both "like ice" and "like fire". Another famous line from the song also captures this dichotomy: "She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all." The first verse of the song has the singer infatuated with the woman, admiring her inner strength. The three remaining verses reflect the inauthentic chaos that the singer has to deal with in the outside world, from which the lover's