Quotes by Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen

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

Bumps

People

Tools

Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There’s been so many who didn’t understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

Eye

Gentle Touch

Voice

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.

Definitions

Dying

Made

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

Care

Ends

Feels

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

Extending Yourself

Hands

Humble

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I’m alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

People

Solitude

Trying

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.

Littles

Long

Way

I’ve come to terms with it, it knows I know.

Know Me

Mental Health

Term

If I could do it over, I’d do better.

If I Could

Ifs

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.

Darkness

Love Is

Lying

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Angel

Art

Ask Me

Born

Bullshit

Bumps

Care

Class

Darkness

Definitions

Differences

Dying

Ends

Extending Yourself

Eye

Faces

Feels

Gentle Touch

Hands

Heart

Humble

Hurt

Ideas

If I Could

Ifs

Know Me

Land

Law

Littles

Long

Love Is

Lying

Machines

Made

Mean

Mental Health

Morning

Nice

People

Reach Out

Should

Solitude

Sweet

Term

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Trying

Understanding

Voice

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Quotes by Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen

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

Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There’s been so many who didn’t understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

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.

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

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I’m alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

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.

I’ve come to terms with it, it knows I know.

If I could do it over, I’d do better.

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.

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