Charles Bukowski Quotes

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

I'm really into poetry.

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

I read mostly poetry.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I'm a poet.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.