Charles Bukowski: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 6)

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

“great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.”

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

“Without literature, life is hell.”

“… in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”

“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”

“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”