The Genius Of The Crowd Charles Bukowski

Picasso's Genius

Metropolitan Museum of Arts. New York 

 

There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average

human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it

and the best at hate are those who preach love

and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god

those who preach peace do not have peace

those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers

beware the knowers

beware those who are always reading books

beware those who either detest poverty

or are proud of it

beware those quick to praise

for they need praise in return

beware those who are quick to censor

they are afraid of what they do not know

beware those who seek constant crowds for

they are nothing alone

beware the average man the average woman

beware their love, their love is average

seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred

there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you

to kill anybody

not wanting solitude

not understanding solitude

they will attempt to destroy anything

that differs from their own

not being able to create art

they will not understand art

they will consider their failure as creators

only as a failure of the world

not being able to love fully

they will believe your love incomplete

and then they will hate you

and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond

like a knife

like a mountain

like a tiger

like hemlock

their finest art

Charles Bukowsky

Spanish .- Traducción 

El genio de la multitud 

Hay suficiente traición y odio, violencia,

necedad en el ser humano corriente

como para abastecer cualquier ejercito o cualquier

jornada.

Y los mejores asesinos son aquellos

que predican en su contra.

Y los que mejor odian son aquellos

que predican amor.

Y los que mejor luchan en la guerra

son -AL FINAL- aquellos que

predican

PAZ.

Aquellos que hablan de Dios

necesitan a Dios.

Aquellos que predican paz

no tienen paz.

Aquellos que predican amor

no tienen amor.

Cuidado con los predicadores

cuidado con los que saben.

Cuidado con aquellos que están siempre

leyendo libros.

Cuidado con aquellos que detestan

la pobreza o están orgullosos de ella.

Cuidado con aquellos de alabanza rápida

pues necesitan que se les alabe a cambio.

Cuidado con aquellos que censuran con rapidez:

tienen miedo de lo que no conocen.

Cuidado con aquellos que buscan constantes

multitudes;

no son nada solos.

Cuidado con

el hombre corriente

con la mujer corriente.

Cuidado con su amor.

Su amor es corriente, busca

lo corriente.

Pero es un genio al odiar

es lo suficientemente genial

al odiar como para matarte, como para matar

a cualquiera.

Al no querer la soledad

al no entender la soledad

intentarán destruir

cualquier cosa

que difiera

de lo suyo.

Al no ser capaces

de crear arte

no entenderán

el arte.

Considerarán su fracaso

como creadores

sólo como un fracaso

del mundo.

Al no ser capaces de amar plenamente

creerán que tu amor es

incompleto

y entonces te

odiarán.

Y su odio será perfecto

como un diamante resplandeciente

como una navaja

como una montaña

como un tigre

como cicuta

Su mejor

ARTE.

Charles Bukowsky

The Saviours of the world... James Allen

Dreams are memories of your future, waiting for you to have the courage to wake up... Claudia Luna

The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as they realities which it shall one day see and know.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man’s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without. 

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.

"Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him".

James Allen