Poetry Quote by Charles Bukowski — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“girls”

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”

“And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.”

“we must bring”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

“there's no clarity.”

“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.”

“Love is a shadow.”

“To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop”

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”

“Watch carefully”