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
drinking thinking two
Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
school eye men
I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
kissing lips remember
I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
trying tough ass
The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.
people introvert empty
People empty me. I have to get away to refill.
insanity norm relative
Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?
death circus existentialism
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
night prophet drunkenness
A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
crowds introvert constant
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
suicide wall drinking
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.
drinking beer order
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
poet
Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.
sex want comfort
I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.
inspirational feel-good soul
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.