There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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But 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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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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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 all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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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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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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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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