No time for things that have no soul
Apr 25, 2024
If you haven’t read Charles Bukowski, there’s no time like today to start.
His work is like a gut punch from another dimension of meaningfulness: In his classic novels Ham on Rye and Post Office as much as poems like Let it enfold you.
What distinguishes Bukowski is encapsulated in one of the most famous quotes attributed to him:
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul”
If nothing else, his art reminds us to not settle for the empty, the shallow or the superficial and… just from time to time to have the courage to decline to spend time on “things that have no soul”.
