Pure poetry: why Jim Morrison's way with words still lights my fire

The Doors' poet-prophet rock idol drew unlikely inspiration from the literary likes of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and HellThe joy of journalism is that you can stay adolescent forever. I am writing today about one of my teenage idols. In case anyone misunderstands my age,...

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