Everything isn’t everything.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThis 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.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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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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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Many leaves one tree.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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