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The Following are quotes of my most inspirational mentors: My belief system revolves around these quotes and the others that follow will follow as I grow more and expand my learning. My poetry follows afterwards; hope everyone can find somehting that they will enjoy!

JIM MORRISON:

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. 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.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Where's your will to be weird?

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

MAYA ANGELOU:

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. "DO IT NOW!!!"

FREDERICH NIETZSCHE:

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Fear is the mother of morality.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The doer alone learneth.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

ARTHUR RIMBAUD:

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!”

“Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

“one single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you. But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see eachother again...”

“Misfortune was my god.”

“There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.”

“In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.”

“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

OSCAR WILDE:

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

***All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

***He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE:

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

***Always be a poet, even in prose.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

***It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

***The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

***There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

***There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

***Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

JAMES JOYCE:

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

***Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

***Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

***Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

***Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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