i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passio…

Charles Bukowski
690 citations
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain
Love Sadness Thought
21

More Author Quotes

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2015). On Cats, p.38, Canongate Books
Our disappointment sits between us.
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2016). On Love, p.113, Canongate Books
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.60, Canongate Books

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes