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
letting-go way process
so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another
remembrance lightning and-love
and love was lightning and remembrance
suicide ocean thinking
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
people not-ready ready
Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.
retirement work noon
Never get out of bed before noon.
girlfriend jobs mean
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
heart humans knows
The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
confused eye hair
And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
ideas space interesting
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.
cat writing rose
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
struggle
...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
thinking light doors
There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
reading book reading-books
Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
horse booze get-back
I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.