171 Quotes by Richard Siken

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

I looked at all the trees and didn't know what to do.

I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy.

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.Your co-workers askif everything's okay and you tell themyou're just tired.And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

and you don't trust him to love you in a wayyou would enjoy

You will die in your sleep and leave everything unfinished. This is also speculation. I had obligations: hope, but hope negates the experience. I owe myself nothing. I cut off my head and threw it on the ground.

You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happeningat the wrong end of a very long tunnel.

History repeats itself. Someone says this.History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters.history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of,I know history. There are many names in history... but none of them are ours.

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.