Charles Bukowski Poetry Quotes
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it's so easy to be a poetand 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 knowwhat 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 withoutthem.
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 aloneare the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski
the gods seldomgive
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 ofthe liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski
We must bringour own light
to the
darkness. — Charles Bukowski
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
— Charles Bukowski
I remember yoursaying: "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 grownold
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski
She slammed the door andwas 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 seemthe 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 veryinteresting
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 somethingwhich
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 dayswhen 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 foolmany are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski
I found the best thingI 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 commandwith simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
Some men neverdie
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski
Regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything. — Charles Bukowski
Having nothing to struggleagainst
they have nothing to struggle
for. — Charles Bukowski
the gods play nofavorites. — Charles Bukowski
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith 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
