The way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down
from the top of the head
and out of the heart.

― Charles Bukowski

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A few years ago, I started sharing bits and pieces of what moved me most — poems, quotes, passages pulled from the deep well of literature, philosophy, and psychology — through a Facebook and Instagram page called Poetic Outlaws.

I never expected it to resonate the way it did. But somehow, it struck a chord with readers all over the world, and grew faster than I could’ve imagined.

This Substack is my way of going deeper. Slower. Truer. A place not just for sharing beautiful words, but for confronting the full range of human experience — the shadow and the shine. It's for those who still believe that language can redeem us, or at the very least, remind us we’re not alone in the dark.

As Tom Robbins once wrote, if civilization is to be anything more than “a can of deodorizer in the shithouse of existence,” we need magic and poetry at the helm — not just policy and profit. I couldn’t agree more.

Here, you’ll find passages that pull no punches — some from my own work, many from writers and thinkers most people have never heard of. But they should. These are the books and voices that pierce the frozen sea inside us, as Kafka put it. They’re not safe, and they’re certainly not sterile. But they are alive — raw, revelatory, and real.

This page is not for the faint of heart. It’s a defiant gesture against the mechanical, against the numbing tide of triviality. It’s a love letter to the wild, sacred fire of art and thought, and to the dangerous yet necessary work of a heightened awareness.

FREE subscribers will get a taste through some scattered poems and passages throughout the week.

PAID subscribers will gain full access to everything: the complete archive, new weekly writings, and personal book recommendations — works you won’t find on any bestseller list, but that just might set your soul ablaze.

If this speaks to something in you — if you feel the pulse of it — consider subscribing. Or simply share it. Either way, thank you for being here.

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