If I could do it over, I'd do better. Rod McKuen More Quotes by Rod McKuen More Quotes From Rod McKuen and if the world breaks down, I'll be around. Rod McKuen breaking-downbreakworld 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. Rod McKuen darknesslove-islying People are not born bastards. They have to work at it. Rod McKuen bornpeople To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. Rod McKuen understandingeyeshould I've come to terms with it, it knows I know. Rod McKuen know-memental-healthterm Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question. Rod McKuen brand-newbrandsanswers I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. Rod McKuen catquietpast Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen givenpoetryfacts Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. Rod McKuen machineslawclass 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. Rod McKuen bullshitpeopleart Never fear being alone, because you never are. Rod McKuen never-fearbeing-alone Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence. Rod McKuen flagsattentioncountry Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know. Rod McKuen butterflyflowerthinking A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. Rod McKuen toolsbumpspeople 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. Rod McKuen reach-outairideas The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction. Rod McKuen claimsworldneeds We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all. Rod McKuen wake-upangelifs 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. Rod McKuen ask-medifferencespeople I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse. Rod McKuen daytomorrowsuicidepeople We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. Rod McKuen parentseducationhomechildren
