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.
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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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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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 can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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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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It’s all the same to the clam.
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