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Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Bukowski
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart ↗
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. ↗
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. ↗
This play was a one-off performance. I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. He was then 49 years old.
In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". His writing was influenced by the social cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.
