If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
SHEL SILVERSTEINOnce 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.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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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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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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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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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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Everything isn’t everything.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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And the tree was happy.
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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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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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When 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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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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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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