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 SILVERSTEINDon’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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Many leaves one tree.
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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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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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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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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
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