"Don't Try" - Charles Bukowski

What Charles Bukowski teaches us about persistence even as he says "Don't Try"

“We work too hard. We try too hard.

Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. It’s been looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb”

Charles Bukowski was a 20th century American writer and poet known for his unfiltered, poetic, and often crude takes on life. Bukowski was born in Germany in 1920 and then emigrated with his family to the US as a 3 y…