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
four faces firsts
Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
phones stupidity may
If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
men faces different
Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
tired space age
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
waiting-around waiting problem
Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.
odds laughing
We are here to laugh at the odds.
couple years lovely
The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.
jesus style arcs
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
horse men mind
A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.
grief facts feels
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub
crazy thinking rooms
if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
loneliness hands movement
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
father earth mets
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
feel-better bars freak
I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.