267 Quotes by Shel Silverstein

Eddie touched a troll.

Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless. Christmas dinner’s dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view.

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing – and I smile.

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.

G’bye, I’m going out to play!

We can’t hold hands – Someone might see. Won’t you please Hold toes with me?

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don’t make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

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?

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.