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.
SHEL SILVERSTEINNever explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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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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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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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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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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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