And the tree was happy.
SHEL SILVERSTEINIf you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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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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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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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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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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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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Many leaves one tree.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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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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Everything isn’t everything.
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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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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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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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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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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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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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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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