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
body care doe
I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
people earth horror
the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
laughing together care
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
stupid believe sorrow
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
running mother orange
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!
art men class
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
quitting left
The wisdom to quit is all we have left.
love-is prejudice form
Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
gun hands goes-on
You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.
grapes
It's just that the grape has me down.
flower trying benches
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.
dirty argument laundry
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
drinking thinking alcohol
I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
real lying men
But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.