“Don’t Try”

Over the last few minutes I’ve stumbled through some new Charles Bukowski discoveries for myself. I would consider myself a big fan of this man’s work, which is very new to me (in the sense that I still have a lot of his poetry to read before I’m caught up on all he’s done.)

But to keep this short,
I just read about how on his gravestone, it reads “Don’t Try” (in light to aspiring writers about inspiration and creativity)… and the article I read says there’s speculation over the true meaning…
but as to what it means to me, as soon as I read it, it gave me chills.
I believe it’s because I actually know the feeling I get, it’s a very recognizable thing to me, of what happens when I sit down and just write (it’s more noticible when I write my poetry though, because I pretty much completely let that flow until it stops, when it comes to writing lyrics for my music I’m usually stopping and starting again to put it with music.)

Anyway, my point is (and my reason for bringing this up is only because I’ve recently been thinking about people that make art for the wrong reasons) that, in regards to the subject above (the way Bukowski sheds light for writers to not try when it comes to creativity), I simply couldn’t have put it better myself.

Sorry for this random rambling of words (in all honesty, I just read over what I typed above, and I’m not sure if it even makes sense in this short version), but I just read that stuff about Bukowski and had to type something up about it. 

Basically, to sum all of the above up, I think that the creation of art should be a natural thing that isn’t forced, and the way Charles put it is basically the best way I’ve ever heard of anyone explaining the same thing.

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