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
heart cigarette-smoke clerks
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
should-have rose waiting
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
men tonight alive
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
strong crazy real
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
men bridges good-man
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
inspirational funny people
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
mean people waste
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.
two numbers way
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
monday nice people
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
ifs
If you let them kill you, they will
dog angel
dogs and angels are not very far apart
pain real cat
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
cities clean
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
circus triviality dies
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!