171 Quotes by Richard Siken

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?

It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn’t. It should be.

Everyone in this room got here somehow and everyone in this room will have to leave.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don’t want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

You a fever I am learning to live with.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

There’s a black dog and there’s a white dog, depends on which you feed, depends on which damn dog you live with.

In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.