#bukowski

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#charles-bukowski #self-love #love

Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#charles-bukowski #inspiration #shqip #thenie #inspirational

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#charles-bukowski #life

To create art means to be crazy alone forever. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bukowskisism #poetry #art

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#handsome #beauty

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#love #moments #nice #poetry #war-all-the-time

And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#poem #love

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#hot-water-music #music

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#so-you-want-to-be-a-writer #writer

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#love-is-a-dog-from-hell #one-of-the-hottest #life