Rod McKuen Quotes - Page 2

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

  Rod McKuen

  Mental Health, Term, Know Me

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• There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

  Rod McKuen

  Way, Faces

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• 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

  Lying, Love Is, Darkness

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

  Rod McKuen

  Poetry, Facts, Given

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

  Rod McKuen

  Eye, Understanding, Should

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

  Rod McKuen

  People, Tools, Bumps

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• 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

  Air, Ideas, Reach Out

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• 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

  Flower, Butterfly, Thinking

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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

  Rod McKuen

  World, Breaking Down, Break

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

  Rod McKuen

  Needs, World, Claims

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• 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

  Art, People, Bullshit

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

  Rod McKuen

  Angel, Wake Up, Ifs

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• 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

  Differences, People, Ask Me

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• Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

  Rod McKuen

  Law, Class, Machines

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