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
Charles Bukowski quotes about
believe wind people
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
real sadness needs
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
soul lazy-eyes knows
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
running rain water
people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
brother hard
Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
night
The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
thinking winning important
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
brain fingertips you-again
If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
reason hard wrong-reasons
Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
trouble love-again
I was in love again. I was in trouble
young be-young
To be young is the only religion.
suicide drinking drunk
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
bread
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread