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Quotes from The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems — Jim Morrison

1943–1971 United States

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This is it
no more fun
the death of all joy
has come.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance — then everything becomes gradually connected".

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

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.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

Do you dare
deny my
potency
my kindness
or forgiveness?

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.)
You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

The world becomes an apparently infinite,
yet possibly finite, card game.
Image combinations,
permutations,
comprise the world game.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

Camel caravans bear
witness guns to Caesar.
Hordes crawl and seep inside
the walls. The streets
flow stone. Life goes
on absorbing war. Violence
kills the temple of no sex.

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jim Morrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.