Rod McKuen quotes

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. (Rod McKuen)

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

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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

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

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Jean, Jean, you're young and alive Come out of your half-dreamed dream And run, if you will, to the top of the hill Open your arms, bonnie Jean.

Rod McKuen

Jean, Jean, roses are red All the leaves have gone green And the clouds are so low You can touch them, and so Come out to the meadow, Jean.

Rod McKuen

We have only love, to offer as a prayer, for all the wrongs in the world. So... like singing troubadours we'll go, singing love wherever we go.

Rod McKuen

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

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If we only have love Then we'll only be men And we'll drink from the Grail To be born once again Then with nothing at all But the little we are We'll have conquered all time All space, the sun, and the stars.

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Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife; Without you I'd have had a lonely life. You cheated lots of times but then, I forgave you in the end Though your lover was my friend. Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky.

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Till the sheep in the valley come home my way
Till the stars fall around me and find me alone
When the sun comes a-singin' I'll still be waitin' (Rod McKuen)

While the hills are ablaze with the moon's yellow haze Come into my arms, bonnie Jean.

Rod McKuen

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.

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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.

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You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

Rod McKuen

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Rod McKuen

So... like laughing children we'll go singing love wherever we go.

Rod McKuen

As friends and as musical collaborators we had traveled, toured and written - together and apart - the events of our lives as if they were songs, and I guess they were. When news of Jacques' death came I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week.

Rod McKuen

If we only have love We will never bow down.

Rod McKuen

These long years later it is worse for I remember what it was as well as what it might have been.

Rod McKuen

If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn. (Rod McKuen)

If we only have love We can melt all the guns And then give the new world To our daughters and sons. If we only have love Then Jerusalem stands And then death has no shadow There are no foreign lands.

Rod McKuen

If we only have love We can reach those in pain We can heal all our wounds We can use our own names.

Rod McKuen

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Rod McKuen

The bestselling poet of 1968 was Rod McKuen, who penned rhythmic little bon mots that he read in a raspy voice suggestive either of emotion or bronchitis. A Hollywood songwriter, clean-shaven with V-neck sweaters, McKuen was a long way from the beats. But by early 1968 he had already sold 250,000 volumes of his unabashedly sentimental verse. His two books, Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows and Listen to the Warm, were selling more than any book on The New York Times fiction bestseller list, although they were not listed, because poetry was not included on bestseller lists. With characteristic self-effacing candor, he said in a 1968 interview, "I'm not a poet; I'm a stringer of words.” When he came down with hepatitis, fans by the hundreds sent him stuffed animals. To many, he and his fans seemed unbearable.

Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen

Occupation: American Poet
Born: April 29, 1933
Died: January 29, 2015
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Rod McKuen

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