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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“لنفترق الآن ما دام في مقلتينا بريق

وما دام في قعر كأسي وكأسك بعض الرحيق

فعمّا قليل يطلّ الصباح ويخبو القمر

ونلمح في الضوء ما رسمته أكفّ الضجر

على جبهتينا

وفي شفتينا

وندرك أن الشعور الرقيق

مضى ساخرا وطواه القدر

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لنفترق الآن , ما زال في شفتينا نغم

تكّبر أن يكشف السر فاختار صمت العدم

وما زال في قطرات الندى شفة تتغنّى

وما زال وجهك مثل الظلام له ألف معنى

كسته الظلال

جمال المحال

وقد يعتريه جمود الصّنم

إذا رفع الليل كفيّه عنّا

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لنفترق الآن , أسمع صوتا وراء النخيل

رهيبا أجشّ الرنين يذكّرني بالرحيل

وأشعر كفّيك ترتعشان كأنّك تخفي

شعورك مثلي وتحبس صرخة حزن وخوف .

لم الإرتجاف؟

وفيم نخاف؟

ألسنا سندرك عمّا قليل

بأن الغرام غمامة صيف

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لنفترق الآن , كالغرباء , وننسى الشّعور

وفي الغد يشرق دهر جديد وتمضي عصور

وفيم التذكّر؟ هل كان غير رؤى عابره

أطافت هنا برفيقين في ساعة غابره؟

وغير مساء

طواه الفناء

وأبقى صداه وبعض سطور

من الشعر في شفتي شاعره؟

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لنفترق الآن, أشعر بالبرد والخوف, دعنا

نغادر هذا المكان ونرجع من حيث جئنا

غريبين نسحب عبء ادّكاراتنا الباهته

وحيدين نحمل أصداء قصتنا المائته

لبعض القبور

وراء العصور

هنالك لا يعرف الدهر عنّا

سوى لون أعيننا الصامته”
― نازك الملائكة