He wasted his wishes on wishing.
SHEL SILVERSTEINI am writing these poems From inside a lion.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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Many leaves one tree.
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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 you are a dreamer come in.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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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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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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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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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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