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
rain men hands
I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
reality people letters
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
typewriters computer
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
horse pockets good-horse
Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
lonely loneliness wine
I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
mass sane know-how
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
believe wine play
There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
numbers turds worst
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
song white forever
I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
finished
this time has finished me.
jail goes-on forget
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
horse fall coffee
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
father luck would-be
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.