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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein And the tree was happy.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein 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.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein 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?
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein
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