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
mad magic
she’s mad, but she’s magic.
stress adversity constant
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
ifs
it's better to be happy...if you can..!!
morning bed remember
I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
dangerous
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
love-is garbage-cans rivers
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
life hipster people
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
hurt kids night
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
destroying destroying-yourself
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
children taken laughing
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
pain flower fall
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain
real two people
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
art crazy mean
To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
women ready one-woman
there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy