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

Jim Morrison
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver...
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver...
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver...
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver...
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. In this quote, the poet is telling us that his purpose as a poet is not to tell us what he has already seen and felt. Rather, the goal of his poetry is to bring someone else into his experience and enrich that experience.

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