“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”

“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you”

“I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness. ”

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”