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
shadow rooms hours
in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
writing gun typewriters
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
laughing firsts serious
Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
library rooms firsts
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
real dimes lasts
When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.
games might toys
When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
hate people hatred
I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.
rocks symphony joy
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
sweet men christ
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
magic trying may
magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
prejudice
That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
dream self snakes
Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…
doing-nothing
I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.
destroyed
You were destroyed by what you befriended.