If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThere is a place where the sidewalk ends.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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And the tree was happy.
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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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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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