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Charles Bukowski Quotes

American - Author | August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

Life Alone Wife Single Would

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

Charles Bukowski

Work Me Shakespeare

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Charles Bukowski

Politics Stupidity Friends Done Much

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Charles Bukowski

Character Soul Walls Man Poetry He

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Charles Bukowski

Education Church System Here State

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Charles Bukowski

Life Myself Accomplishment Worthy

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Charles Bukowski

Hope Path Dance Grace Blind New

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Charles Bukowski

Life Writing Literature Been Who

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

Charles Bukowski

Mind Me Lunch Dinner Writing Night

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Charles Bukowski

Good Writing Bad Because Like Those

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Charles Bukowski

Lie Yourself Me You Young Why

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Charles Bukowski

Lie Yourself You Begin Order Fail

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