Charles Bukowski Quotes

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

There is no doubt that Michael Symmons Roberts is a very good poet - you don't win a Whitbread award and get shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize for nothing. Few poets, though, have ever been good novelists, and vice-versa.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.