All Richard Siken Quotes
- I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation. Bleeding
- I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. Battling
- We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven... Forgiven
- Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? Forgive
- Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody. Affects
- Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them. Close
- Someone is digging your grave right now. Digging
- From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale. Dead
- You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have. Along
- You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're… Ask
- 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 it. All
- Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. Bodies
- We can do anything. It’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring… Attempt
- Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent… All
- Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out… Affix
- I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream… All
- If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand. Don T
- Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins,… Clothes
- A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river âŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸâŸbut then he’s still left with the river. A man… Down
- All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe.… Across