Poetry Quote by Shel Silverstein — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“EARLY BIRD”

“True story”

“My beard grows down to my toes,”

“why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.”

“Birds are flyin' south for winter.”

“If you are a dreamer come in”

“My words are the garment of what I shall never be”

“How dull it is to pause, to make an end,”

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

“Fireflies, to me, are nighttime butterflies,”

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”