The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
SHEL SILVERSTEINListen 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.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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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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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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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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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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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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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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 if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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