Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
SHEL SILVERSTEINIf you are a dreamer come in.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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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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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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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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Many leaves one tree.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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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 the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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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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Everything isn’t everything.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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