“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”
Source: White Oleander
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"Creation", as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 89, and in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0520916586, p. 164

“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
Katniss (p. 352)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

Variant: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Source: Poems, 1923-1954
“I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.”
"An island of pleasure gond adrift" in LIFE magazine (15 March 1963), p. 42