If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
SHEL SILVERSTEINMany leaves one tree.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Many leaves one tree.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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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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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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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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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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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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