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
art differences life-is
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
pain book reading
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
jail needs drink
What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
rain dark feel-good
Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.
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.