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Love Is a Dog from Hell

by Charles Bukowski

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and

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“...she has saved me from everything that is not here.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Lover, Love, savior, Saved, saved by love

“I need a good woman. I need a good woman more than I need this typewriter, more than I need my automobile, more than I need Mozart; I need a good woman so badly that I can taste her in the air, I can feel her at my fingertips, I can see sidewalks built for her feet to walk upon, I can see pillows fo…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Good Woman, Love, Lover, Right Person, romance

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Secret Love, secrecy, Hiding, Attraction

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Love and Passion, Love and Affection

“I think that whatever I do is my business. I do it because if I don’t I’m finished. I’m selfish: I do it for myself to save what is left of myself.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: selfishness, Self-Love, Self-Care, Passion

“Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: motivation, inspiration

“she’s like something out of the movies but she’s actually here.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem

“We know God is dead, they’ve told us, but listening to you I wasn’t so sure.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem

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

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Alone, Time, Passage Of Time, Melancholy

“you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this bed any longer.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Illusion, Idealising Someone, Idealistic Love, Relationships