We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnd if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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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It’s all the same to the clam.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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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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Everything isn’t everything.
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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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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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