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

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”

“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.”

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

“I know history. There are many names in history”

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

“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.”

“Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,”

“I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,”

“look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...”

“If I had a soul I sold it”

“The profoundest of all sensualities”