Quotes About Bukowski

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

Inside, Katherine opened Sarah's refrigerator and, from between leathery unwrapped burrito halves and Tupperwares holding bluing sludge, took out a wheel of cheap Brie still in its plastic and set it down on the counter. "I like your apartment," she said. "Sorry it's so messy," said Sarah. Katherine shrugged. "Bukowski said that people with clean kitchens have detestable spiritual qualities.

Sure, I've written about women and sex and madhouses, just like Bukowski did, but I've also written about many other topics, often utilizing other stylistic methods in doing so. Bukowski would probably have been annoyed with the rambling tone of my poems in Cells.

today, suffering from drawn out hangover, the world ran dry. Bukowski died and one third of the world's winemakers will go broke.

Tom Waits, Nighthawks On The Radio. E é sintomático que Waits cite o maldito Bukowski: sua voz poderosa se transforma ocasionalmente num grunhido disforme, as palavras são praticamente vomitadas num dialeto que, por incrível que pareça (ou não), acabam por transcender seu próprio significado. Poesia musical em estado bruto...

Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the "a." - from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli On Cats

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!!

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn't consider was that I had my troubles too—most of them caused by simply living with them.

Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.

SHUT THAT GOD-DAMNED THING OFF!" there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, "you shouldn't have done that." and the soldier said, "FUCK THAT GUY!" which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did.

I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance.

MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN! Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.

In a sense, as much as I disliked it, education helped when you were looking at a menu or for a job, especially when you were looking at a menu.

Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral." I was always quick with the mouth. I would never learn.

Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the comfort I need from a good cigar.

I don't write out of knowledge. When the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. That's why my number's listed.

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.