Quotes by Richard Siken

Richard Siken

A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

Ghost

Kids

Tables

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

Romantic Love

Sleep

Usual

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. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.” Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.

Believe

Fall

Stars

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

Forgiving

Horrible

Staring

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else.

Needs

For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was the princess, cotton candy pink, sitting there in my room, in the tower of the castle, young and beautiful and in love and waiting for you with confidence but the princess looks into her mirror and only sees the princess, while I’m out here, slogging through the mud, breathing fire, and getting stabbed to death. Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. You get magic gloves! A fish that talks! You get eyes like flashlights!

Beautiful

Hero

Princess

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

Landscape

Scales

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 night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

Here I Am

Night

Rome

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

Crush

Destroyed

Lovers

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable. 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.

Apples

Light

Mean

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Afternoon

And Love

Apples

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Bleeding

Blood

Body

Boys

Brother

Clothes

Conversation

Crush

Degrees

Desire

Destroyed

Digging

Dragons

Evil

Fall

Father

Feelings

Flames

Forgiven

Forgiving

Ghost

Grateful

Graves

Hands

Heart

Here I Am

Hero

Horrible

If You Love Me

Kids

Kind

Landscape

Laughing

Light

Long

Love Always

Love You

Lovers

Mean

Minutes

Names

Needs

Next Day

Night

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Quotes by Richard Siken

Richard Siken

A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

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

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else.

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

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 night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

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