Rod McKuen Quotes - Page 2

Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.