Quotes by Rod McKuen

“Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness”

“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it”

“Poetry is fact given over to imagery”

“To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines”

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”

Unless you call attentionto your presencewho will know youre there?Even a countryhas to weave and wave a flagas proof of its existence.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

I have fallen in love with the worldAnd I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.

I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,I thought I’d speak it just the same.

No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

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

Looking back few friends had webut Ive got him and hes got me.And when the golden minute comeswhen we no longer wake to smellthe river where the wild swans sailedthe orchard where the blossoms fell,well smile a little thinkin of that.Me in my shirt-tails, him with his whiskersme and the cat.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is mans communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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.