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?
SHEL SILVERSTEINDon’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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And the tree was happy.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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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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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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