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Old 06-01-2009, 08:29 PM   #7 (permalink)
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8. The Doors

Like a surprising majority of bands The Doors name came from the poet William Blake. William Blake was one of the core poets who made up the Romantic Age in England, and was greatly inspired by both the French and the American Revolution.

The line that inspired Morrison to name the band The Doors was this-

"if the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite.

***Wiki cites that Morrison was inspired by the author Aldous Huxley from the book about drug experimentation The Doors of Perception
. "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." I have never heard that story before and do not really believe it, but am including it in attempt to keep this as accurate as possible
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