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

“I wait on my fix:”

“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”

“I believe that to be the world's greatest living”

“Born into this”

“there is a place in the heart that”

“the best part was”

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, perhaps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps tearing open the wounds while trying to heal them. Here we see the only acceptable path open up towards an existence worthy of human beings. Here the seriousness is unfaltering and absolute. Where it will lead no one knows.”

“Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk”

“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”

“From a Berkeley Notebook'”

“How could it be wished”

“When”