Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
SHEL SILVERSTEINWhen the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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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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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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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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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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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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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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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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