...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

we're anything brighter than even the sun

Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues