The Essential Bukowski: Poetry
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feast, believe me is not death and is not glory and like Quixote’s windmills makes a foe turned by the heavens against one man; . . . this thing upon me, great god, this thing upon me crawling like a snake, terrifying my love of commonness, some
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call Art some call poetry; it’s not death but dying will solve its power
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I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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the best days are sometimes the first, sometimes the middle and even sometimes the last.
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some people never go crazy. what truly horrible lives they must live.
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it has been a beautiful fight still is.
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and there will be the most beautiful silence never heard born out of that. the sun still hidden there awaiting the next chapter.
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your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.