Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
JIM MORRISONIf my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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