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Your Life is Your life: Go all the way - Charles Bukowski

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2016
  • This is a combination of 2 poems made by Charles Bukowski
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    Writer: Charles Bukowski
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  • @zx6r79
    @zx6r79 4 роки тому +2188

    For those of us that have raised ourselves, this is the conversation we have missed from our fathers and grandfathers.

    • @rodolfogomes6615
      @rodolfogomes6615 4 роки тому +18

      😢

    • @SunnyDlite84
      @SunnyDlite84 4 роки тому +65

      True!! I don't meet others who raised themselves. Nice to know I'm not alone. Though sad too.

    • @michaelgrace1298
      @michaelgrace1298 4 роки тому +30

      @@SunnyDlite84 me too, and it's only just hit me, I raised myself 😢

    • @trayc2762
      @trayc2762 4 роки тому +12

      zx6r79: Word👌
      I Am.
      Peace brothers and sisters.

    • @powerhouse8888
      @powerhouse8888 3 роки тому +23

      I wish all of us find each other one day with an open pure heart because we know the value of love and we can give it to each other unconditionally.

  • @lewisc1924
    @lewisc1924 7 років тому +3376

    the phrase "You can't beat death, but you can beat death in life"
    is one of the most profound statements I've ever heard.

    • @sistergrimace1567
      @sistergrimace1567 7 років тому +46

      Lewis C "Its the only good fight there is"

    • @lescamerounais8740
      @lescamerounais8740 7 років тому +6

      i'm agreed

    • @Quixoticah
      @Quixoticah 7 років тому +51

      It's a good line, but it's difficult to do anything with it. The lines that follow are those that offer direction how to do this: "and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be"
      Don't just think a big idea, repeat using it every day just a little at a time. Beating death is a pretty big concept after all! Take it a little at a time and get better at it every pass. And even we agree on this, the form of this action won't be the same for any one of us, so we must ask - what's my own way of beating death in life, a little bit at a time? Answer this and your profound experience will be complete.

    • @Nikku08
      @Nikku08 7 років тому +14

      I don't really understand it. Can you please explain it to me?

    • @yinauritaveras317
      @yinauritaveras317 7 років тому +4

      Lewis C sometimes???

  • @maticbauman5957
    @maticbauman5957 Рік тому +99

    And when nobody wakes you in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
    -Charles Bukowski

    • @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw
      @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw 10 місяців тому +3

      Personal Freedom. ✨❣️✨

    • @machoman6969
      @machoman6969 9 місяців тому +6

      A bit of both.

    • @davidas5049
      @davidas5049 4 місяці тому +1

      amazing quote, thank you !

    • @copperraising
      @copperraising 4 місяці тому +2

      From Rodger Waters in an interview, Wish you were here is often misinterpreted as being about someone else, and that works and is understandable, but really it is about your own naivete and innocence that you trade in over time, or lose even, through experiences, or "life"...
      TLDR- "Did you exchang,e a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"

  • @AngolaSun
    @AngolaSun 6 років тому +1791

    Throwing Away The Alarm Clock
    by Charles Bukowski
    my father always said, “early to bed and
    early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
    and wise.”
    it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
    and we were up at dawn to the smell of
    coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
    eggs.
    my father followed this general routine
    for a lifetime and died young, broke,
    and, I think, not too
    wise.
    taking note, I rejected his advice and it
    became, for me, late to bed and late
    to rise.
    now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered
    the world but I’ve avoided
    numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
    common pitfalls
    and have met some strange, wonderful
    people
    one of whom
    was
    myself-someone my father
    never
    knew.

    • @kathrynstewart-mcdonald
      @kathrynstewart-mcdonald 4 роки тому +58

      My father said he love the poetry of Robert Frost, "The Road Less Traveled" we traveled that road, along with my adventurous mother and my pet dog, we lived in many foreign countries, places which were at that time virtually unheard of, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Italy, Bahamas and others, My father was always employed and had a good income, he was loved by people, when he returned to the USA, after serving our country in foreign service for US Dept of State, more than 50 years abroad, he said it was a country he barely recognized, the lack of community, the lack of manners He loved our country , we all do. We need to do more to humanize our nation, we need to change the curriculum for the generation of children destroyed by their parents drug abuse or absence. Teach them to speak standard English, learn manners, and improve our schools, they need safe places to live, affordable places.

    • @moskva-kassiopeya
      @moskva-kassiopeya 4 роки тому +14

      You said that like it’s up to everybody to wake late. If you have to work for a living you can’t choose to up late.

    • @eldorado1244
      @eldorado1244 4 роки тому +32

      @@moskva-kassiopeya ...find a different job that allows you to wake up late....

    • @MrSimonw58
      @MrSimonw58 4 роки тому +1

      Do what you want I don't care but your father sounds like a dick.

    • @RoxyWrites
      @RoxyWrites 4 роки тому +26

      @@moskva-kassiopeya If that is the only thing stopping you from creating, from following your bliss, from doing what you love, then change the job. If you cannot change jobs bc of economy or circumstance or location, then change your circumstances or your location! As a woman over 40 in America it is very non-egalitarian for me. I have manifested from nothing, for 4 decades of my life, a more egalitarian circumstance for myself in a sea of "no egalitarianism" but manifesting that daily for myself inside a nation that hates women, that neither supports me or recognizes me as a human being but only as a gender... That is not the answer for me. So I can stay or I can leave... my choice is to leave (moving to Germany this year). To each of us, the question is always the same: How badly do you want what your heart tells you is your path? "Your Life is Your Life, don't let it be clubbed into dank submission..." simply because the STORY you're telling yourself right now is a negative one...That's NOT your story, it's someone else's story that you were fed as a child. Other people's stories are not yours. Tell the Story of Your Life as you Want it to be, and not how it was 5 minutes ago. Every morning you will decide who you are when you wake up. Choose Your Life and no one else's, and if your bliss means changing jobs to a 2nd or 3rd shift, or moving to another city or another country, so what? ........ "DO IT! ....It's the only good fight there is."-CB

  • @mete3254
    @mete3254 7 років тому +5260

    I changed my mind. Suicide is not the solution.

    • @robertdegroot8302
      @robertdegroot8302 7 років тому +237

      +Metehan, great. But don't forget that your mood is mostly determined by imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain: mood determines thoughts, thoughts barely affect mood. If you've already tried antidepressants, start exercising 5 times a week (force yourself to do it in the beginning), start eating healthy, look for a new hobby (like learning an instrument, a sport or a language), set a happy long term goal for yourself (like going traveling 3 years from now) and clean up your social life (by removing toxic people). If you fail to continue with one or some of these, then don't worry about it and just focus on the others. I did most of those things and they saved me from depression and addiction. Especially the healthy eating and daily exercising greatly improved me within a few weeks. Some people like jogging or cycling, but I prefer fitness because the body building also improves my self esteem. Good luck!!

    • @geromerca6734
      @geromerca6734 7 років тому +27

      Metehan Kaya do it Do it..just kidding I'm in a hard boat too but I'm curious if my future

    • @Felipe-fb5lh
      @Felipe-fb5lh 7 років тому +41

      Dont give up

    • @jpare3375
      @jpare3375 7 років тому +38

      It's not the solution, LIVE.

    • @josephstevens5489
      @josephstevens5489 7 років тому +24

      how could it ever be.
      Hope you start making waves you enjoy surfing

  • @Marco_diPasquale
    @Marco_diPasquale 7 років тому +386

    I feel like everyone needs an old man to narrate their life...

    • @creactivaimpresiones3629
      @creactivaimpresiones3629 5 років тому +4

      TO NARRATE OR TO INSPIRE THEIR LIFE..? There is a little difference on that.

    • @Mp47Ak5
      @Mp47Ak5 5 років тому +1

      Look up the truth about Morgan Freeman.

    • @TANTRUMGASM
      @TANTRUMGASM 5 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/yOJHZfINeps/v-deo.html

    • @user-nd8vl7uy5x
      @user-nd8vl7uy5x 4 роки тому

      Lol

    • @asiddiqi123
      @asiddiqi123 4 роки тому +2

      THIS old man.

  • @zachmcelroy8556
    @zachmcelroy8556 4 роки тому +527

    Isolation is a gift.. I've come to love myself this year.
    Took 27 years, and quite a few mistakes, but all the inherent self hate, and misery, isn't mine.
    I'm glad I held on.
    I'm glad I'm alive.

    • @boadicea5856
      @boadicea5856 4 роки тому +13

      Zach McElroy Im glad you're alive too. And that you held on. You never know the good that awaits you in your future.

    • @aritrakrishna7379
      @aritrakrishna7379 4 роки тому +6

      Im 17 and thank you for your comment. Was in a doubt about isolation u cleared it out.

    • @johnh23z
      @johnh23z 4 роки тому +4

      Good Man !

    • @thomassterckx549
      @thomassterckx549 4 роки тому +2

    • @kpooja9379
      @kpooja9379 4 роки тому +3

      @@aritrakrishna7379 I was about to say what u said.
      But sometimes it's frustating and hit profoundly; triggers very ridiculous thought in mind nd end up thinking about nothingness..... But yeaah sometimes it provide wide space too to live your life in way that you want.

  • @drandrewdobo
    @drandrewdobo 4 роки тому +526

    He also said, "If you let them kill you they will." He was right. Protect yourself. Learn to say NO. He also said, :"Sometimes you have to just piss in the sink." I love this guy.

  • @diverseyy6928
    @diverseyy6928 7 років тому +1228

    Laying in bed staring at the ceiling at 5 am, couldnt eat for 3 days with a broken heart this is making me cry, but I know these moments will mold me into a stronger person and to anyone else going through tough times: when you're at the bottom the only way is up, keep your head up and ride it out straight to perfect laughter.

    • @maximusgladio3989
      @maximusgladio3989 7 років тому +33

      Diverseyy hold on there man. you are stronger than you think

    • @justindsalinas
      @justindsalinas 7 років тому +24

      stay strong it gets better

    • @nlpjim5502
      @nlpjim5502 7 років тому +19

      i hope you're doing okay

    • @irishmermaid4
      @irishmermaid4 7 років тому +16

      Diverseyy Hold fast, my friend. You will heal.

    • @Edddy...
      @Edddy... 7 років тому +5

      Diverseyy hit it and quit it

  • @follklor9976
    @follklor9976 7 років тому +260

    There is a light somewhere
    It may not be much light
    But it beats the darkness

  • @gregorcollins
    @gregorcollins 4 роки тому +248

    “You can’t beat death, but you can beat death in life...”

    • @c.1211
      @c.1211 4 роки тому +2

      What a great line.👍

    • @BrendonMarkering
      @BrendonMarkering 4 роки тому

      🙏😌

    • @teddyboef2821
      @teddyboef2821 4 роки тому

      Actually you can beat death. Bv realising you were never born to begin with.

    • @TOKRocK84
      @TOKRocK84 4 роки тому

      @@teddyboef2821 yea, that's what "but you can beat death in life" means (for example) I think. It's a very weird line, it's greater than simple logic, that's why it is so great. Definetely deepest line in the poem(s)

    • @TOKRocK84
      @TOKRocK84 4 роки тому +1

      that line... whish people would know it, instead of getting their lifes screwed by that excuse of a pandemic... guess I'll listen to 'genius of the crowd next'... and then come back here probably, he

  • @influencerrrrrr
    @influencerrrrrr 4 роки тому +159

    "The gods wait to delight in you."
    I want to believe it now more than ever, Charles.

    • @haze_the_alchemist1123
      @haze_the_alchemist1123 3 роки тому +8

      You are infinite my friend.

    • @huwballbot3978
      @huwballbot3978 3 роки тому +1

      There is no such a thing as god , humans need hopes to get something what they need so they creat as by there own fantasy

    • @haze_the_alchemist1123
      @haze_the_alchemist1123 3 роки тому +3

      @@huwballbot3978
      God means the Soutce we obviously came and exist from somewhere.

    • @wingo78
      @wingo78 Рік тому

      @@huwballbot3978 go away HITLER!

    • @max-bc5uo
      @max-bc5uo Рік тому

      @@haze_the_alchemist1123 Believing in God implies you gave up curiousity. Sad

  • @springbreak2021
    @springbreak2021 7 років тому +450

    "You will be alone with the gods
    And the nights will flame with fire"
    That image is absolutely stunning. There are no words for the emotions this invokes

    • @Bigheart49
      @Bigheart49 6 років тому +9

      Inspiring. It talks to the soul
      How far are you willing to go to know your path

    • @doorswhofan
      @doorswhofan 5 років тому +3

      Agreed. An intense, vibrant line.

    • @kiran0511
      @kiran0511 4 роки тому +2

      do it !

    • @andyt9181
      @andyt9181 3 роки тому

      That one got me too, some familiar truth about it.

    • @jeanshareux2090
      @jeanshareux2090 Рік тому +2

      I wonder what this phrase means though.. can someone explain?

  • @arad4912
    @arad4912 7 років тому +570

    All of these words mean different thing to each one of us.

    • @amyfrizzo3756
      @amyfrizzo3756 5 років тому +6

      You are so right. Isn't that the meaning of each man being free to say what is in your true heart. And you are to take it for your self and what it means to you.

    • @chaosdweller
      @chaosdweller 4 роки тому +8

      That is art

    • @kishanshivakoti256
      @kishanshivakoti256 4 роки тому

      AR AD no better interpretation

    • @gregflores8959
      @gregflores8959 4 роки тому

      AR AD Didn’t need you to inform everyone of the obvious,..duhhhh.

    • @RogerioLupoArteCientifica
      @RogerioLupoArteCientifica 3 роки тому +7

      and also mean a different thing to the different persons we become all throughout different times of our life.

  • @rafael.benjamin
    @rafael.benjamin Рік тому +14

    Took me 15 years to realize alcohol was holding me back and preventing me to become my best version. Not anymore. I come here almost every day to watch this video. My life is my life.

  • @parisisamoveablefeast3945
    @parisisamoveablefeast3945 2 роки тому +40

    Please never delete this. I come back here often and it always touches my soul and heart like no other poems could.

  • @JosephAROgren
    @JosephAROgren 6 років тому +320

    I always have to fight back tears when I listen to poems like this. Anyone else?

    • @scratchness5567
      @scratchness5567 4 роки тому +5

      it's so deep broh..

    • @annajacobs697
      @annajacobs697 4 роки тому +8

      @@scratchness5567 I am 63 now and Bukowski was my savior many a time and all the way

    • @acrididi
      @acrididi 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah I feel the same, but you and I know why.. Because we are not doing it, doing what we're supposed to do.. Start today if you haven't already!

    • @ChethanKumar-ot7mp
      @ChethanKumar-ot7mp 4 роки тому +3

      Me too friend

    • @ms.misunderstood150
      @ms.misunderstood150 4 роки тому +2

      I feel u....it's deep..and overwhelming

  • @fraandreambook
    @fraandreambook 7 років тому +1681

    When I feel a little bit sad I always come to this video to remind me that I must "go all the way" to follow my dreams :)

    • @RogiDream
      @RogiDream  7 років тому +44

      +Francisca Jeraldo Never stop going Francisca! Your positive actions, like this comment, make impacts all over. Create a life of your own and influence people in a good way

    • @ascad55
      @ascad55 7 років тому +17

      Do it do it do it u will do it

    • @nat0106951
      @nat0106951 6 років тому +2

      Francisca Jeraldo I've been going all the way. and started to lose relationships. that is why I lost my focus coz it hurts. I wanted to start going al the way again

    • @mtw9592
      @mtw9592 6 років тому +7

      there are no dreams in life. Dreams are illusions, constructs of our mind, in order to alleviate our pain.

    • @papadoc711
      @papadoc711 6 років тому +4

      Your Life, is your life :)

  • @poem
    @poem 3 роки тому +48

    ❤️‍🔥
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think
    I'm not going to make it
    but you laugh inside
    remembering all the times you've felt that way”
    ❤️‍🔥
    ~ Charles Bukowski 😎

    • @blackbird5634
      @blackbird5634 Рік тому +3

      "Sometimes I bend over to tie my shoes, and when I stand up the day is over." -William S Burroughs. 🙃

    • @cristianm7097
      @cristianm7097 Рік тому

      IF you manage to get out of bed. It can take days, due to laziness or depression or lack of motivation.

  • @diegoalves8043
    @diegoalves8043 9 місяців тому +7

    For a moment I thought that this was Bukowski's voice. It would be what I expected from the man in the photo, a raspy voice. It is a shame writers and poets don't record their work in their own voice.

    • @wakeupbenny
      @wakeupbenny 3 місяці тому +1

      maybe AI but this voice is so close to his voice if u watched his interviews

    • @bunnyboilerification
      @bunnyboilerification Місяць тому +1

      it says the speaker is Tom O'bedlam

    • @mort8568
      @mort8568 23 дні тому

      Plenty of reading sessions he's done himself that you can find on UA-cam. Later as he happened upon more money he stopped doing those. But lots of em out there from before then.

  • @cheekymonkey3929
    @cheekymonkey3929 7 років тому +563

    Isolation is a gift✌

    • @JustAgreekPassing
      @JustAgreekPassing 7 років тому +5

      amen

    • @rekostarr7149
      @rekostarr7149 7 років тому +8

      INDEED.

    • @bruhcolli5220
      @bruhcolli5220 7 років тому +14

      Why? Is it because in isolation you'll know more about yourself?

    • @bruhcolli5220
      @bruhcolli5220 7 років тому +24

      Yes. You'll understand how life works, what's better for you and others but I guess im still looking for a deeper meaning why he said ”gift" although I get what you mean when you're alone you'll understand what's really going on with you

    • @flukesl8615
      @flukesl8615 7 років тому +1

      H Rad maybe he just means that from enduring the other stuff, isolation became a gift?

  • @NJahn-tl3nr
    @NJahn-tl3nr 7 років тому +5

    Genius!!!!

  • @rachidaaggoun4441
    @rachidaaggoun4441 6 років тому +87

    "Your life is your life" how can five simple words hold such powerful meaning

  • @lt2459
    @lt2459 3 роки тому +55

    Never in my 27yrs of living have I came across something so magnificent as this to the point where it's moved me so emotionally

    • @jimw.4161
      @jimw.4161 Рік тому +3

      I am 78 years old - and I feel exactly the same way.
      Even with a lifetime of experience.
      You discovered Hank very early in life; you're lucky!

  • @RANGUSKI
    @RANGUSKI 7 років тому +308

    he is a legend .. when he say "do it , do it , do it " he entering into my mind slowly .. what a voice .. inspirational

  • @roosevelta99
    @roosevelta99 8 років тому +1045

    "beautiful" is not enough to describe my feeling watching this..

  • @michaelmichaelmason6693
    @michaelmichaelmason6693 6 років тому +141

    Bukowski, for me, is the most honest poet I have ever had the privilege to read. I love his stories, his autobiographical truth, and his comical harmonies. I only discovered him this year, and am totally hooked. Bless him!

    • @demigodkenshi
      @demigodkenshi 3 роки тому

      reyis

    • @rjwasser8312
      @rjwasser8312 2 роки тому

      You wouldn't happen to know what book of poetry this happens to be in, would you?

  • @chickenspoonful
    @chickenspoonful 4 роки тому +44

    Found this shortly after being made redundant. I was on the edge of despair, about to tumble into a black hole of my own making. Thanks for uploading this ! It has helped take the edge off the sadness

    • @ay3696
      @ay3696 3 роки тому +2

      Hope you are doin ok now and things started to look up 🙌🏻🙌🏻

    • @georgecraker8972
      @georgecraker8972 3 роки тому +3

      Hope you’re well.

    • @Last.Dark.Emperor
      @Last.Dark.Emperor 2 роки тому

      When u are in black hole,then became black hole itself,absorb everything around u,untill thers nothing left that is not u.

  • @boadicea5856
    @boadicea5856 6 років тому +271

    I watched and listened to about.... 5,000 UA-cam videos, however, this tops them all. All.

    • @pgielzakdesign
      @pgielzakdesign 5 років тому +6

      And death shall have no dominion. Do not go gentle into this good night. Dylan Thomas

    • @acrididi
      @acrididi 4 роки тому +2

      Make it 5.000.000

    • @forgiveness_denied
      @forgiveness_denied 4 роки тому +1

      great waste of life

    • @ryanweston9677
      @ryanweston9677 4 роки тому +1

      This was about 250th on my list. Keep searching!

    • @boadicea5856
      @boadicea5856 4 роки тому +2

      forgiveness denied Not when one is hearing the words Bukowski wrote! 😆

  • @patrickcummins79
    @patrickcummins79 7 років тому +566

    Facing some possible jail time in a few months, needed to hear this.

    • @jamjox9922
      @jamjox9922 7 років тому +89

      The greatest prison is always inside our minds.
      Mandela did 20 years and changed the world.
      If you do end up inside, serve your time, and change your life.
      It will not be easy, but it's the only life you have.

    • @c0rnf1ake
      @c0rnf1ake 7 років тому +41

      If I was in jail I'd try to teach myself like Malcolm X. And train in calisthenics and become a strength-functional god who's smart as fuck.

    • @sohaybmegraoui2050
      @sohaybmegraoui2050 7 років тому +14

      You are what you make of your experiences - good or bad.

    • @biggusdickus666
      @biggusdickus666 7 років тому +17

      what did you do?

    • @djkiddrocks1241
      @djkiddrocks1241 7 років тому +23

      Jam Jox Mandela was a terrorist who changed the world for the worse. Look at south Africa now. You have Mandela and his ilk to thank for that.

  • @nofixedaddressbyknowhope260
    @nofixedaddressbyknowhope260 5 років тому +2

    Just gave up every possession I have and moved across the country to chase a dream ...these words guide me

  • @benji.B-side
    @benji.B-side 5 років тому +18

    I've lost a lot by going all the way, but I have found nearly everything because of it, the hidden treasure in one's own soul!!

    • @RoxyWrites
      @RoxyWrites 3 роки тому +2

      YES

    • @Last.Dark.Emperor
      @Last.Dark.Emperor 2 роки тому

      Everything is worth of loosing in this life to get that which is eternal,it is hardest path,full of blockades in every corner,but once u realize yourself,there is nothing that can stop u,even nothing itself.

  • @NoHandle690
    @NoHandle690 7 років тому +136

    'Your life is your life, know it while you have it'.WOW, Magic words

  • @AquariusRevolution
    @AquariusRevolution 7 років тому +159

    What would a human life be without emotions, words, music and poetry. This hit me like a gust of wind and raised me up above my everyday BS life. Great poetry makes you pay attention to the present moment.

  • @exzisd
    @exzisd 3 роки тому +1

    I wish it was Bukoski reading this. The way he spoke in his readings carried a certain energy to it that cannot be replicated just like the way he wrote.

  • @bubba6755
    @bubba6755 5 років тому +20

    "It's the only good fight there is."

  • @thetorrance3897
    @thetorrance3897 7 років тому +45

    i type this with tears in my eyes....second poem may be the most profound thing ive ever heard

    • @timmytoms__
      @timmytoms__ 5 років тому +2

      :')

    • @drtyluver1422
      @drtyluver1422 4 роки тому +1

      Why do people say that so much now? Glory? Attention? Why have people become so fake?

  • @kennethrodriguez3475
    @kennethrodriguez3475 7 років тому +151

    "I don't fight because I want to win, I fight because I have to win"
    -Unknown

    • @UchihaNoMadara
      @UchihaNoMadara 5 років тому +5

      Ichigo whilst fighting Ulquiorra.

    • @poondawg3244
      @poondawg3244 4 роки тому +2

      "A good idea, is a good idea forever" - David Brent

  • @Deathinlife
    @Deathinlife 4 роки тому +4

    I discovered bukowski when I was 15. Saved me in my life. Just last week I discovered Alexander port a true calling and it made me pick up a book by bukowski. Just great.

  • @333ryansmith
    @333ryansmith 6 років тому +391

    wise words we all need to hear. great man.

    • @roguespiral
      @roguespiral 6 років тому +1

      Ryan Smith
      Yeah i just hear them but i dont really do anything...

    • @drtyluver1422
      @drtyluver1422 4 роки тому +3

      Yes, men are great, always have been. Do not let a female shape your life, never. Follow your dreams, not hers 👍 good luck kid

    • @drtyluver1422
      @drtyluver1422 4 роки тому +1

      @@roguespiral Go for a hard run, wake your ass up. Sweat, feel pain on purpose, dont stop till it's over 👍

    • @danbreen1916
      @danbreen1916 3 роки тому

      This coming from a Jag off who worked in a post office mail room for like 20 years ..... fuckin hypocrite

    • @haze_the_alchemist1123
      @haze_the_alchemist1123 3 роки тому

      @@drtyluver1422 yup

  • @dingoswamphead
    @dingoswamphead 7 років тому +304

    I just hope Nike don't take this up as an ad.

  • @smilelikeUmeanit90
    @smilelikeUmeanit90 7 років тому +59

    "and it will be better then anything else you can imagine"

    • @KRASHMAN669
      @KRASHMAN669 7 років тому

      Black Moon let's see

    • @RogerioLupoArteCientifica
      @RogerioLupoArteCientifica 7 років тому

      it is... and yet after knowing it, all you can know is that there is nothing better, but you can't recall it, just be there again.
      As Rumi says:
      I saw you and became empty.
      This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
      it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
      existence thrives and creates more existence!

  • @minaus5082
    @minaus5082 4 роки тому +13

    I always think about these words of him when I feel like I don’t wanna live anymore and feel deeply hopeless it is unbelievable when you realize how he understands and shares it all I don’t have enough words to thank him one of the greatest souls...

  • @Diego-ji8oz
    @Diego-ji8oz 2 роки тому +3

    A real knot in my throath to hear this man who lived a terrible life in many aspects and then gave humanity this beautifull words of hope and wisdom.

  • @79JOM1
    @79JOM1 7 років тому +26

    bukowski knows whats up.!

    • @Lookout4the3rdrail
      @Lookout4the3rdrail 6 років тому

      79JOM1
      Sure does

    • @drtyluver1422
      @drtyluver1422 4 роки тому

      He stayed in my town n area 👍 San Pedro and Torrance. We know pain lol and ego

  • @aakkoin
    @aakkoin 7 років тому +28

    You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.... amazing

  • @BlackSouixie
    @BlackSouixie 11 місяців тому +1

    He will always be the poet of my soul.

  • @mohammedyounes222
    @mohammedyounes222 5 років тому +4

    "you'll be alone with the gods,and the nights will flame with fire "
    wow only Bukowski can write something so true and badass in the same time

  • @leo959
    @leo959 7 років тому +8

    "go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the night will flame with fire."
    god that is soo beautiful

  • @sly1013
    @sly1013 7 років тому +27

    I mistakely clicked on this video,wow i got chills listening to him

    • @wanderer299a
      @wanderer299a 6 років тому

      its not charles talking...nowhere even near...

    • @peterturley1331
      @peterturley1331 4 роки тому

      There are no mistakes friend.

  • @piotretes
    @piotretes 2 роки тому +3

    This poem made me take all the important and hard decisions of my life.
    I knew it several years ago. I forget about it each time. But in a dark night, God might remind it to me, each time. At the good moment.
    And eather it makes me do, eather it makes me be proud of what I did.
    Full of hope

  • @RahulChaudhary-bw2ep
    @RahulChaudhary-bw2ep 3 роки тому +6

    I wrote these poems on paper and paste to board and read daily from February 2020 to now. It gives great enthusiasm everytime I read them.

  • @TrinidadJamesWoods
    @TrinidadJamesWoods 7 років тому +9

    Post Office is still one of my favorite novels - even after all these years. there is only one Bukowski.

  • @bi2u4787
    @bi2u4787 7 років тому +262

    What a legend! Gave me goosebumps specially second poem!!

    • @dr.justice
      @dr.justice 6 років тому +4

      No doubt - he just lived it.

  • @masterprophet8378
    @masterprophet8378 5 років тому +5

    The sheer potency of this exhortation cannot be matched.
    Bukowski wisdom!

  • @IamSimonForReal
    @IamSimonForReal 3 роки тому +1

    I'm starting a new job tonight and I'm scared, but I came here for his words of wisdom...

  • @themoralcreed2910
    @themoralcreed2910 7 років тому +6

    Heard this incredible piece and looked for it's writer. I was expecting an composed man who had life figured out. Turns out he was an alcoholic who had a rough life. Weirdly I find that comforting, seems more fitting in my opinion.

  • @Teohg
    @Teohg 7 років тому +37

    I feel like the actual gods have guided me to watch this video and hear this amazing composition. Guess my already broken soul feels the healing powers of truly amazing poetry. What a great character Charles Bukowski was. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

    • @avi-ventures
      @avi-ventures 4 роки тому +4

      Teodora B. No it was the amazing UA-cam algorithm

    • @lilyk9518
      @lilyk9518 3 роки тому +4

      @@avi-ventures maybe there is a god of UA-cam, you never know😄

    • @avi-ventures
      @avi-ventures 3 роки тому +2

      Belief is all we need

  •  6 років тому +16

    Dear Charles, You delightful drunk. Thank you for your words.
    Go All the way

  • @pritijha5640
    @pritijha5640 4 роки тому +5

    I'm feeling a bit sad. And just like every time I came to this video to remind me that I must "go all the way" to follow my dreams" and "I must paas test of my endurance with 💯.

  • @JonathanNelsonOfficial
    @JonathanNelsonOfficial 7 років тому +6

    The two best poems of the 20th century.

  • @42042O
    @42042O 7 років тому +61

    Idk what led me here, but I'm glad it did. I needed this right now. Good luck to everyone in their lives. We sometimes forget ourselves and lose our way. Remember yourself and treat yourself kind.

  • @naciomay8582
    @naciomay8582 4 дні тому

    these two poems changed my life..I listen to them whenever I reach my next goal in life..he is my mentor..and this is the power of poetry

  • @luisangel9881
    @luisangel9881 5 років тому +4

    i couldn’t make it through 25, 26, 27, without these words. thanks puke.

  • @quantummath
    @quantummath 7 років тому +6

    "Your life is your life, don't let it be clubbed into dank submission ... ", it's like thunder, quick and massively influential. Damn it, it's Awesome.

  • @playablecharacter3871
    @playablecharacter3871 7 років тому +6

    Something about his voice and mannerisms just adds to the profundity of everything I've ever heard from him

  • @maxuli21
    @maxuli21 2 роки тому +1

    Waking up on a park bench as a 25 year old man with no education, job, caring family, apartment or money and suffering from health problems was an eye opening experience. Then you really are alone with the gods. Now in a slightly better situation, but my mindset has vastly changed from what I used to believe. But I learn the hard way, always have and always will.

  • @giannhssalths8024
    @giannhssalths8024 4 роки тому +3

    This is the best speech I've ever heard. I cried when I heard it

  • @masterslimjim
    @masterslimjim 8 років тому +5

    Understanding him and his body of work, as a statement, this gives me chills every time I hear it.

  • @kuzzin_killmonger
    @kuzzin_killmonger 7 років тому +7

    And that's why he's one of my favorite authors

  • @chrisedmonds4022
    @chrisedmonds4022 2 роки тому +3

    I’m an extreme person when I first heard this in my 20’s it made me feel powerful. I’ve pushed dangerous things bc I knew it was the only way I could heal and I don’t have long to live so I enjoy everything even if it kills me. I have insane faith in myself. Thanks Charles one day I will tell my story bc you’ve helped me.

  • @TheReviewSpace
    @TheReviewSpace 5 років тому +2

    All the greatest men died in the 1990s, but their work, poetry & legacy lives on.

  • @erinstahle6999
    @erinstahle6999 7 років тому +26

    This gave me life, on a spiritual journey so long, this gave me life again

  • @lilymbae386
    @lilymbae386 4 роки тому +5

    He was a beautiful beautiful man. Thank you for your words. "The gods delight in you" thank you charles🙏🙏

  • @judymahon5147
    @judymahon5147 5 років тому +3

    His read, his voice, his poetry is so rich. "Roll the Dice" was so powerful, I wept yet listened so many times, as he is generous and beautiful with his words. "You will ride life to perfect laughter". "Your life is your life, know it while you have it", powerful.

    • @judymahon5147
      @judymahon5147 5 років тому +1

      @@DeuceDevil It was lovely, but no worries.

  • @motionblur1984
    @motionblur1984 5 років тому +1

    Something inside me broke long ago. And it will never get fixed. Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning, in those moments I come back to this and it makes me feel better, there's hope. But more than that, this makes me feel completely insignificant. At this point all I can do is feel gratitude. In the middle of the darkness, in a mostly hostile world, I have found unbelievable beauty and love. This moments are worth living.

    • @peterturley1331
      @peterturley1331 4 роки тому

      Beautifully stated. I empathise deeply. I sincerely hope that we both find peace, in this world or the next. X.

  • @upendasana7857
    @upendasana7857 7 років тому +18

    I watched a documentary on Charles Bukowski the other night,I did not know his story as such.There were times when I thought he was a misogynist git and times when I was so overwhelmed with compassion for the suffering and humiliation he went through by the hands of his father and the lifelong scares that left.He determination and compulsion to write even when working long shifts in a post office that left him physically pushed to his limits,utterly moved me.Like many of us he was a complex mixture virtue and vice and I think this quote is beautiful from someone who really knew what darkness was.I will go and read some of his other writing as well.

  • @artursarturs9783
    @artursarturs9783 7 років тому +60

    This poem helps me in the journey in sober life. Love it!

    • @rodneyharvey7780
      @rodneyharvey7780 7 років тому +2

      Arturs Arturs One day at a time. 6 years clean and sober. The program isn't for people who need it, it's for people who want it.

    • @artursarturs9783
      @artursarturs9783 7 років тому +2

      My brother... :) Hugs!

    • @rodneyharvey7780
      @rodneyharvey7780 7 років тому +4

      Amen.

    • @drtyluver1422
      @drtyluver1422 4 роки тому

      @@rodneyharvey7780 Aye, but as anything, lots of bad in all

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 4 роки тому +2

      The author was an alcoholic.

  • @joshuasullivan2346
    @joshuasullivan2346 3 роки тому +2

    This is exactly what i needed to hear.. Not just today, but for the previous 34 years of life.

  • @RemedyUnderTheSun
    @RemedyUnderTheSun 5 років тому +9

    "You can't beat death, but you can beat death in life"

  • @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1
    @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1 7 років тому +15

    I've watched hundreds of inspiritaional videos over the years, but this one is by far the most truthful, and thus, the best.
    You da man, Charles.

  • @onelieisenoughtoquestional5437
    @onelieisenoughtoquestional5437 4 роки тому +17

    Hey you reading this!
    I just want to tell you that no matter how hard your life may seem right now, you are gonna fight through it! You are gonna make it, whatever your dreams or goals may be, you are gonna make it! You only have one life, embrace it! Never give up, stay strong! And have a beautiful day!

  • @celzarodricks3662
    @celzarodricks3662 3 роки тому

    For those of you who disliked the video, you have no idea the kind of life Charles Bukowski lived. He is a true inspiration.

  • @naciomay8582
    @naciomay8582 Рік тому +1

    I made it Bukowsky maybe simple but made my dream come true in a way..I didnt slept in a park but there was a tme I was smkong half smoked cigarettes I found in the streets..I was so short but I kept going because your poem is my guide for years..I will go backto my family soon , but I made it ,I am a very different person right now..Following our dreams and going all the way is the biggest challange a man can do...

  • @peterturley1331
    @peterturley1331 4 роки тому +4

    "go all the way"! Indeed. Synchronicities are leading me to this, to 'push on through'. Nothing left .

  • @michaelgranger9139
    @michaelgranger9139 7 років тому +7

    RogiDream This is just under 3 minutes of the most important advice anyone can ever give you. Thank you for putting this up on youtube for the world to hear. Bukowski is an American treasure.

  • @neilclark4226
    @neilclark4226 4 роки тому +2

    I first listened to this when my distant father was dying from lung cancer upstairs. This reading touched me deeply. I cried. I am so lost right now.

    • @redmatters9318
      @redmatters9318 2 роки тому

      Neil Clark. Defeat defeat defeat eill help you now ....the natural EGO will intuitively direct that growth is possible and so towards healing THOUGHTS which will soothe the famished affections.IMAO and CHEERS AND G'DAY FROM AUSTRALIA MATE. :) Kill DEATH by living.

  • @bruceg1845
    @bruceg1845 4 роки тому +2

    thanks Charles, the man who wrote the line -"the carbon tips of Peru are lace in the fleece of my dreams" what great words...bruce

  • @gregflores8959
    @gregflores8959 4 роки тому +4

    Wish I had heard these words long ago as a young man, never too late though.

  • @Sandipan_Naskar
    @Sandipan_Naskar 4 роки тому +6

    02:15 "You will be alone with the gods
    And the nights will flame with fire"❤️❤️❤️

  • @asceticsceptic6192
    @asceticsceptic6192 4 роки тому

    One of the most difficult things is to dedicate yourself to "what" it is that both your intellect and soul is screaming out for you to accomplish.

  • @quantimun
    @quantimun 2 роки тому +2

    Everytime I feel like everything is falling apart I come back to this video. It makes me goes through life.

  • @robinsonm388
    @robinsonm388 7 років тому +6

    this is the first I hear of this guy and the first I have heard of this poem..... it teared me up especially " go all the way" I am going through a similar situation right now in my life and this video was the first that showed up on my video list. Maybe a sign...

  • @completeathlete6693
    @completeathlete6693 7 років тому +4

    That DREAM belongs to me! Whatever it takes!

  • @niniv2706
    @niniv2706 4 роки тому

    Human beings beat death when they raise children ... The way Bukowski inserts "god" in this one is ... Just Sublime .

  • @neelkanthbk
    @neelkanthbk 4 роки тому +2

    Charles, thank you for your Pearls of Wisdom!! Your voice, straight from heaven

  • @anaszakiri
    @anaszakiri 7 років тому +30

    I needed this so bad, thank you .

  • @alim2154
    @alim2154 7 років тому +3

    a profound testament of a life lover

  • @jamajnasoares5702
    @jamajnasoares5702 4 роки тому +1

    This is always a good place to come back.

  • @srishtimusafir630
    @srishtimusafir630 3 роки тому +1

    This sentence 'go all the way or don't even try' changed my life.