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.
SHEL SILVERSTEINThe baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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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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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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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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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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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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Many leaves one tree.
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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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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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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 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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