Poetry Quote by Richard Siken — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure.”

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

“A man walks into a bar and says:”

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;”

“পৃথক পাহাড়”

“I have daughters and I have sons.”

“it's so easy to be a poet”

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,”

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.”