Want Quotes by Richard Siken

8 Want quotes by Richard Siken

Richard Siken’s eight lines about wanting pulse with poetic urgency. Each brief fragment feels like a breath‑held moment, offering a compact yet powerful glimpse into his lyrical world.

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

Richard Siken

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Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will…

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Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good.…

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I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that…

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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

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I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening…

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The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.…

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“Do you want it? Do you want anything I have? Will you throw me to the ground like you mean it, reach…

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

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

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

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

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“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?…

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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…

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“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…

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

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

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Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

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“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…

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