And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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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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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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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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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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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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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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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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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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I’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
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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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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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Many leaves one tree.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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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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Everything isn’t everything.
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And the tree was happy.
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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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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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