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| Charles Bukowski sammen med Mickey Rourke castet som Hank Chinaski. Still fra filmen Making of Barfly. |
it is quite
easy to appear modern
while in
reality being the biggest damnfool
ever born;
I know: I
have gotten away with some awful stuff
but not
nearly such awful pot as I read in the journals;
I have an
honesty self-born of whores and hospitals
that will
not allow me to pretend to be
something
which I am not –
which is a
double failure: the failure of people
in poetry
and the
failure of people
in life.
and when
you fail in poetry
you fail in
life,
and when
you fail life
you were
never born
no matter
what the statistics
or what
your mother named you.
Charles
Bukowski
Uddrag af “A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem-Makers”, sakset fra The Roominghouse Madrigals. Early Selected
Poems 1946-1966. ➕
