The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Charles Bukowski
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.”
“people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”
“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”
“Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS”
“and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?”
“and love was lightning and remembrance”
“i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain”
“There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.”
“That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.”
“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”
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