White Shoulders

Your white shoulders
I remember
And your shrug of laughter.

Low laughter
Shaken slow
From your white shoulders.

poem by Carl Sandburg
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

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Flux

Sand of the sea runs red
Where the sunset reaches and quivers.
Sand of the sea runs yellow
Where the moon slants and wavers.

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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

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