And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
SHEL SILVERSTEINComfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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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.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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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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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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I’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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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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Many leaves one tree.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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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?
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