Dream Quotes by Richard Siken

“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the…

— Richard Siken

Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend…

— Richard Siken

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls…

— Richard Siken

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

— Richard Siken

You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

— Richard Siken

“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will…

— Richard Siken

“I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.”

— Richard Siken

“The stranger says there are no more couches and he will have to sleep in your bed. You try to warn him, you tell…

— Richard Siken

“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in the woods?…

— Richard Siken

Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to…

— Richard Siken

“It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio, how we rolled…

— Richard Siken

Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get…

— Richard Siken

“want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that I ran out into the street to prove…

— Richard Siken

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

— Richard Siken

“You cannot get in the way of anyone's path to God. You can, but it does no good. Every spy knows this. Somesay God…

— Richard Siken