Shel Silverstein Quotes - Page 3

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• An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.

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  Flower, Thinking, Talking

  Shel Silverstein, “The Oak And The Rose”

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

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  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

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  Believe, Food, Hands

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• Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

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  Dad, Gone, Toilets

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• Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.

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  Nature, Flower, Dark

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• It's all the same to the clam.

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  Clams

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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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  Funny, Reality, Forever

  Shel Silverstein, “Friendship”

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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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  Life Lesson, Thinking, Track

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• It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make.

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  Sky, Differences, Bits

  Shel Silverstein, “Sky Seasoning”

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• Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?

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  Flower, Fall, Snow

  Shel Silverstein, “Forgotten Language”

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• Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

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  Mermaid, Magic, Gold

  Shel Silverstein, “Magic”

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• My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

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  Hair, Clothes, Beard

  Shel Silverstein, “My Beard”

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• Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

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  Sacrifice, Boys, Tree

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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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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  Blue, Poetry, Skins

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• If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

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  Looks, Want, Enough

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• I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

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  War, Play, Hug

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

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  Eye, Night, White

  Shel Silverstein, “Colors”

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• Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

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  Crazy, Looks, Want

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• And the tree was happy

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  Tree

  Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”

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• One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.

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  Pain, Rain, Tree

  Shel Silverstein, “Cloony The Clown”

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• ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.

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  Taste, Bottles, Drink

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• If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

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  Mean, Fighting, Nasty

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away When I'm an old grey geezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down A dip my old cold toes in.

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  Inspiring, Dream, Night

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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

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  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

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  Sweet, Tree, Fool

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