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Shel Silverstein
American
Poet
Born:
Sep 25
,
1930
Died:
May 10
,
1999
About
Anybody
Believe
Me
People
You
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Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Shel Silverstein
Truth
Me
Wise
Clever
Cute
Tell
Kind
Perfect
Talented
Graceful
Sensitive
Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
Shel Silverstein
Life
Freedom
Important
Important Things
Shoes
Most
Comfortable
Leave
Things
Two
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein
War
Will
Hug
Rug
Everyone
Giggles
Rather
Kisses
Wins
Instead
HUGS
Rolls
Tug
Where
Play
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein
You
Tough
Thinking
Enough
Hill
Track
Just
Rough
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein
You
About
Only
Never
Never Explain
Talking
Itself
Explain
Muddle
Speaks
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
Shel Silverstein
You
People
Reading
Meeting
Spent
East
India
Could
Exchanging
Instead
Ideas
Around
Years
Going
Africa
Wanted
Anyway
Far
Roosevelt
Far East
Europe
Travelling
Wasted
Four
Imagine
I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.
Shel Silverstein
Man
Woman
Dog
Free
Whatever
Live
Believe
Else
Everyone
Please
Like
Leave
Go
Child
Dependent
Want
Anyone
Anyone Else
Wherever
Should
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Shel Silverstein
You
Nothing
Way
Tell
Stay
Know
Friends
Forever
Really
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.
Shel Silverstein
You
People
Fly
Sit
Believe
Corn
Beef
Hand
Expect
Want
Anything
Sandwich
Then
Your
Wash
Socks
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Shel Silverstein
Obligation
Human Being
Think
Society
Else
He
Greater
Than
Any
Human
Anybody
Anybody Else
Being
Bricklayer
Satirist
There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.
Shel Silverstein
People
Thought
Military
Laugh
Cartoons
Pretty
Silly
About
Take
Poke
Make
Were
Lot
Anybody
Anything
Meant
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