I Do Know Some Things Quotes

“To them I was Hamlet in a long line of Hamlets. My problems were unimpressive and not unique. I had a grief counselor, like everyone, and a suicide counselor, because I had said the wrong thing...The suicide counselor said the people who hadn't shown up weren't going to show up, that the ones who had stopped coming would not be coming back.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“The horse wasn't actually real until I killed it.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“Say it plain, see if it's powerful. Say it slant, see if it's possible. Distraction, diversion, the clumsy decorations? Cheap magic. A smoke screen. Without the truth, there can be no fiction. Nonsense needs reason. To push against. I didn't howl at the moon, I yelled at a lamp. Subject verse. Someone wept. Some things are more important than poetry.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“I want to found a city, not reconstruct one. Houses so new there are no mice in the walls. It’s a poverty of imagination—the fear of improvisation, the insistence on undamaged goods.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things