the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to …

Charles Bukowski
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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems, p.91, Zondervan
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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems, p.91, Zondervan

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