Jim Morrison Quotes on Perception
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People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.
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(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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The subject says 'I see first lots of things which dance - then everything becomes gradually connected'.
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The Lords. Events take place beyond our knowledge or control. Our lives are lived for us. We can only try to enslave others. But gradually, special perceptions are being developed. The idea of the 'Lords' is beginning to form in some minds. We should enlist them into bands of perceivers to tour the labyrinth during their mysterious nocturnal appearances. The Lords have secret entrances and they know disguises. But they give themselves away in minor ways. Too much glint of light in the eye. A wrong gesture. Too long and curious a glance.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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You are too young to be old...
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.