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

“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.”

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

“You're trying not to tell him 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 don't even have a name for.”

“You are a fever I am learning to live with.”

“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest”

“We pull our boots on with both hands”

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”

“I am filled time and again”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“...But...to sing,”

“The poet dreams of the mountain”

“O rose, you look sick.”