Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
animal talking soul
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
errors defense made
there's no defense except all the errors made
lying fire mad
"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
writing way ifs
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
crazy thinking rooms
if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
law vaudeville firsts
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
art boxing bullfighting
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
men thinking average
for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had
loneliness hands movement
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
clever nice heart
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
father earth mets
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
waiting shadow hell
I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
two aliens hours
Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
feel-better bars freak
I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.