Quotes About Bukowski

also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can't understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.

are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.