Never underestimate the power of the writing of Dr. Seuss.  His words are fun and flirty. But as usual there's a powerful message to be found in them.

And this message is about not drowning your reader in words.

I'm a big fan of Charles Dickens, a writer who knew how to turn a phrase into a paragraph.  The most well known example, the opening line to A Tale of Two Cities:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

In other words:

Things were good and bad

People were happy and sad

There's a time and a place to be verbose. Different genres expect different levels of description. Different scenes need different levels of story-telling. You also have to decide your writing style.

Are you making your readers work for the joy of reading your story?