Quote by Ray Manzarek
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to a

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I cant really think of anyone whos done anything like it since. – Ray Manzarek

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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek

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The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now youre free. – Ray Manzarek

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons

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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. – Janine Turner

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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves. – Gustav Heinemann

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