Charles Bukowski Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

• Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Taken, Past

• we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Luck, Eye, Past

• The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Magic, Helping

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.268, Canongate Books

• If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Past, Lines

• I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

  Charles Bukowski

  Silly, Writing, Men

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