This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThis boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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And the tree was happy.
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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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