Charles Bukowski Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Christmas poem to a man in jail
hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around my books in
jail there, my poems and stories.
if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with
my books, fine.
but literature, you know, is difficult for the
average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too);
I don't like most poetry, for example,
so I write mine the way I like to read it. — Charles Bukowski

The best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
putting the phone
in the
refrigerator
and going to bed
for 3 or 4
days. and the next best
part
was
nobody ever
missed
me. — Charles Bukowski

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness. — Charles Bukowski

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. — Charles Bukowski

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia