Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
SHEL SILVERSTEINBut all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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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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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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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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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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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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I’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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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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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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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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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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