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it's so easy to be a poet
and so hard to be
a man. — Charles Bukowski

One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid — Charles Bukowski

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. — Charles Bukowski

sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

She likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe — Charles Bukowski

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. — Charles Bukowski

To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth, — Charles Bukowski

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia

Ah, christ, what a CREW:
more
poetry, always more
POETRY — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski

the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take. — Charles Bukowski

I wait on my fix:
I am a poetry junkie. — Charles Bukowski

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. — Charles Bukowski

One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski

We must bring
our own light
to the
darkness. — Charles Bukowski

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. — Charles Bukowski

I remember your
saying: "make it
or break it."
neither happened and
it
won't. — Charles Bukowski

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital. — Charles Bukowski

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

She slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone. — Charles Bukowski

crawled like a blind slug into the
web — Charles Bukowski

I run with the hunted. — Charles Bukowski

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever. — Charles Bukowski

and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned. — Charles Bukowski

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness. — Charles Bukowski

She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are. — Charles Bukowski

I'm only interested in poetry. — Charles Bukowski

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. — Charles Bukowski

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

But as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry. — Charles Bukowski

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski

Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski

Regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything. — Charles Bukowski

Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for. — Charles Bukowski

the gods play no
favorites. — Charles Bukowski

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us — Charles Bukowski

The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter. — Charles Bukowski

You chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with! — Charles Bukowski