It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive. Rod McKuen More Quotes by Rod McKuen More Quotes From Rod McKuen 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 darkness love-is lying People are not born bastards. They have to work at it. Rod McKuen born people To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. Rod McKuen understanding eye should I've come to terms with it, it knows I know. Rod McKuen know-me mental-health term 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-new brands answers I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. Rod McKuen cat quiet past If I could do it over, I'd do better. Rod McKuen if-i-could ifs Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen given poetry facts Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. Rod McKuen machines law class 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 bullshit people art Never fear being alone, because you never are. Rod McKuen never-fear being-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 flags attention country 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 butterfly flower thinking A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. Rod McKuen tools bumps people 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-out air ideas The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction. Rod McKuen claims world needs We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all. Rod McKuen wake-up angel ifs 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-me differences people 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 day tomorrow suicide people 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 parents education home children
