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Richard Siken Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
— Richard Siken, Crush(Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Tagged: Unsaid Things, Regret, Silence
“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else.”
— Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
Tagged: Needs, Desire, Love, Freedom
“Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars
for you?”
— Richard Siken, Snow And Dirty Rain
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Stars
“I surrender my desire for a logical culmination. I surrender my desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.”
— Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
Tagged: Surrender, Give Up
“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 whole.”
— Richard Siken, Crush(Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Tagged: greedy, Impulse, Independent, part of the whole
“Accidents never happen when the room is empty. Everyone understands this. Everyone needs a place. People like to think war means something.”
— Richard Siken, DETAIL OF THE FIRE
Tagged: Poetry, humanity, Psychology
“The paint doesn’t move the way the light reflects,
so what’s there to be faithful to? I am faithful
to you, darling. I say it to the paint.”
— Richard Siken, The Way The Light Reflects
Tagged: Faithful, Light Reflecting, Being Faithful, Permanence
“Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.”
— Richard Siken, War of the Foxes
Tagged: Apologizing, Apology, forgiveness, Relationships, Love & Relationships, Love
“We are all going forward. None of us are going back.”
— Richard Siken, Crush
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Moving Forward, Life, Progress
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me
I'm alive.”
— Richard Siken, Snow And Dirty Rain
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Sex, Passion
“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.”
— Richard Siken, Crush
Tagged: Feelings, Digging Deeper
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