Shel Silverstein

Happy Ending? There are no happy endings, Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

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

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?

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, But a whole lot more like me.

And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

“If you are a dreamer come in”

I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

Would you like to hear the night I bravely fought the—no? Alright

“everything isn't everything”

...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...

“Anything is possible. Anything can be.”

If you’re a bird, be an early bird—But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The Things They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...

They just had a contest for scariest mask, & I was the wild and daring one who won the contest for scariest mask & I'm not even wearing one.

He thought it was the biggest puddle he'd go splashing through. Turns out it was the smallest lake - and the deepest, too.

Balancing my ABCs takes from noon to half past three. I don't have time to grab a T or even stop to take a P.