You Who Never Arrived (as translated by Stephen Mitchell) (1913-1914)
Context: You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment.
“and then there are some who
believe that old
relationships can be
revived and made new
again.
but please
if you feel that way
don't phone
don't write
don't arrive”
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Charles Bukowski 555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
The Guardian, 5 February 2007, I hate Macs http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html
Guardian columns
"Mila Kunis Interview BLACK SWAN" in Collider https://collider.com/mila-kunis-interview-black-swan/ (23 November 20100
“Don't write when you can talk; don't talk when you can nod your head.”
Van Nostrand, Albert D. (December 1948). "The Lomasney Legend". The New England Quarterly. 21 (4): 437. JSTOR 361565 https://www.jstor.org/stable/361565
“Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.”
Advice to Red Grange as quoted in The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone (1998) by Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter, p. 159; Unsourced variant: Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
Context: Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!
“I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.”
“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)