death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my
wine
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Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
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DEBORAH HEILIGMAN sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The poet dreams of the classroom
I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
MARY OLIVER in the afterglow
of an evening rain
i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN (Sid's suicide note:)
WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN...
SID VICIOUS When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
MARY OLIVER Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of...
ANNE SEXTON I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I love...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land;
And giv'st me, for my bushel sown, <...
ROBERT HERRICK 7am
They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER Then this immensive cup
Of aromatic wine,
Catullus, I quaff up
To that terse muse of thine.
ROBERT HERRICK It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?"
THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. TERRY PRATCHETT tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Standing is stupid,
Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
H...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN DEATH
. . .
And now you are here to fight for this woman.
You know her promise is giv...
ANNE CARSON When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
MARY OLIVER I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustlin...
ALAN SEEGER Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for...
KAMAND KOJOURI WHO AM I?
I have seven heavenly panels
Leading up to a pointed sphere
I’m mul...
SUZY KASSEM It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you'r...
BONNIE TYLER I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mump...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear
new lines, new countries
SANOBER KHAN For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If t...
WILLIAM BLAKE My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my b...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .
And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī ~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~
The doctor told me something once DAVE MATTHES we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<...
MAYA ANGELOU Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.
My favo...
KATE DICAMILLO There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Trapped
don't undress my love
you might find a mannequin:
don't undress the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The lover drinks
and the cup-bearer pours.
The lover thinks
but the cup-bearer knows:...
KAMAND KOJOURI Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the b...
MARY OLIVER When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
MARY OLIVER A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE This is one hell of a suicide note.
THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the de...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Soft you day, be velvet soft,
My true love approaches,
Look you bright, you dusty sun, <...
MAYA ANGELOU Haunted
You haunt me in my dreams
I can only hear my drowning screams
Is it bec...
STACE LEE As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS SWEAR
If this time the eggs don't break,
freckling the sidewalk with yolk splatter,<...
KAREN FINNEYFROCK FROZEN DREAM
I'll take the dream I had last night
And put it in my freezer,
So ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
MAGGIE STIEFVATER ON THE DAY I DIE
On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Standing Here
My entire world far beneath
my feet, I should be filled
wit...
ELLEN HOPKINS Antony:
O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See
How I convey my shame out of thine eyes WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Light
That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never whol...
E.E. CUMMINGS This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This Stone
He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Before you came,
things were as they should be:
the sky was the dead-end of sight,
th...
FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ I saw a huge steam roller,
It blotted out the sun.
The people all lay down, lay down; KURT VONNEGUT JR. You prank me
…
You fuck with me
…
You screw me up
…...
DEYTH BANGER i am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God<...
SAUL WILLIAMS TODD:
The history of the world, my love --
LOVETT:
Save a lot of graves,
Do a lo...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I look at you
And I want to build things
Four walls
A roof
A room with a view JOSé N. HARRIS You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the v...
MAYA ANGELOU The Doors
The End
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my ...
JIM MORRISON And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.
I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrench...
VERONICA ROTH By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio...
ROBERT CHARLES WILSON during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
MARTINA MCBRIDE My hair is not the shiniest of bobs
My eyes are not the brightest in the room
My figure wi...
NANCY N. RUE The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trous...
MARJANE SATRAPI It doesn't bother me
That less than brimming is my cup.
Today is crowned with great success! ANON. I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured d...
HEINRICH HEINE Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker, DEBORAH GARRISON "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
...
ALLAMA IQBAL From the day I entered in to this world and opened
My eyes
N to
The day I passed ...
YASH When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Deat...
ALFRED TENNYSON Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
VIRGIL An Irish Airman foresees his Death
I Know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere amon...
W.B. YEATS My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS I feel his arm
Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Pretty Song"
From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Give me love like her
'Cause lately I've been waking up alone
Paint splattered teardrops o...
ED SHEERAN I promise I'll never tell."
"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t...
JERI SMITH-READY Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,...
RUPERT BROOKE O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
F...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad
Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode!
Here I wa...
MUNIA KHAN STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE Put down the Technicolor ones. No freaking way."
"But blue's my favorite color," I say, b...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Why is my love for you, dyed in wool?
What is the hindrance to moving on?
Why in lov...
ZUBAIR AHSAN And O
there are days
i this life,
worth life and
worth death
CHARLES DICKENS I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Maturity
A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body g...
PHILIP LARKIN In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and r...
SAROJINI NAIDU Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
I was born KAMAND KOJOURI Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Whe...
ALICE SEBOLD All my years to this moment
All my roads to this wall.
All my words to this silence
A...
CATHERINE FISHER I've lost myself..."
"...since I found us."
"My God's upset,renounced my faith..."
"....
DR. KARAN M PAI
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grav...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
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cigarettes
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give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
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Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
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Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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and how you gave me
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do they,
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is
one of the mos...
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saving the best part for paper.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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than being alone
but it often takes
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locking them
up,
your best men a...
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that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI