Mckuen One By One Quotes & Sayings

I'm not the first man or the last
who had a thirst to leave the past. — Rod McKuen

Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter. — Rod McKuen

Now is next to nothing compared to where I've been. — 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

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

Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something
about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love, — Carolyn Brown

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. — Rod McKuen

Poetry is fact given over to imagery. — Rod McKuen

Love is a sweet thing caught a moment
and held in a golden eye. — Rod McKuen

Extending your hand is extending yourself. — Rod McKuen

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters. — Rod McKuen

I was rich in those days, for a week I had everything. I wish I'd known you then. — Rod McKuen

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you. — Rod McKuen

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

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

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

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

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning. — Rod McKuen

I have fallen in love with the world
And I am aware that I have chosen
the most dangerous lover of them all. — Rod McKuen

Always I glance both ways.
Why chance missing love
wherever she or he may lurk? — Rod McKuen

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable. — Rod McKuen

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts. — Rod McKuen

Never fear being alone, because you never are. — 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. — Rod McKuen

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it. — Rod McKuen

Looking back few friends had we
but I've got him and he's got me.
And when the golden minute comes
when we no longer wake to smell
the river where the wild swans sailed
the orchard where the blossoms fell,
we'll smile a little thinkin' of that.
Me in my shirt-tails, him with his whiskers
me and the cat. — Rod McKuen

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen

There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces. — Rod McKuen

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening. — Rod McKuen

Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky. — Rod McKuen

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

Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus. — Rod McKuen