Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

If the anecdote to your life is the depiction of a ocean, Make sure the ocean is in the grasp of a vicious storm and not a calm flat monotonous rhythmic clock going by like time tick tick tick...

Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.