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“when you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”

Charles Bukowski

“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”

Charles Bukowski

“I'll use the knives for spreading
jam, and the gas to warm
my greying love.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L. A. Public Library.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Variant: there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“all people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.”

Charles Bukowski

“there are policemen in the street
and angels in the clouds”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

Charles Bukowski