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
real loneliness
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
block people humans
I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell.
should-have machinery treated
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
feelings needed
I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
suicide long-ago committed
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
eye brain staring
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
race want littles
I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.
men luck trying
I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
hate sometimes said
sometimes I hate you," she said.
mad rich-poor poverty
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
pay humans human-beings
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
fads too-much lasts
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
long people enough
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.