But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
SHEL SILVERSTEINNever explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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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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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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Many leaves one tree.
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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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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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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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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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It’s all the same to the clam.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. 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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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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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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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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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 all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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