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

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

““my mother, poor fish,”

“when I am feeling”

“we must bring”

“regret is mostly caused by not having”

““Style is the answer to everything.”

“I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.”

“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally”

“Don't ask her to be a rock”

“Love's language is imprecise,”

“Poems are difficult to silence.”

“for those memories are now”