If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
JIM MORRISONRavaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
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There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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