Poet Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

— Charles Bukowski

“I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.”

— Charles Bukowski

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do…

— Charles Bukowski

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to…

— Charles Bukowski

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the…

— Charles Bukowski

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each…

— Charles Bukowski

“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I…

— Charles Bukowski

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly…

— Charles Bukowski

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough…

— Charles Bukowski

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick…

— Charles Bukowski

“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and…

— Charles Bukowski

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession…

— Charles Bukowski