Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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