"I tell you this,
no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn"
- Jim Morrison
JIM MORRISON- In the twenty seven years of his life he, along with the other members the Doors, recorded six albums, performed throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Mexico, and produced two award Winning films. Yet the constant thread in his life was writing. He published four books and by the summer of 1971 he had written 1,600 pages of poems, anecdotes, lyrics, stories, outlines for plays and film scripts.
As he himself said of poetry :
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
. . . and that's why poetry appeals to me so much - because it's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust but poetry and songs. No one can remember an entire novel. No one can describe a film, a piece of sculpture, a painting, but so long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue.
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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