Richard Siken Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Sleep

• I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Thinking, Long

• Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Lakes, Clothes

• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

• Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Writing, Glasses

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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