Travel Quotes by Roman Payne

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

— Roman Payne

“From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.”

— Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”

— Roman Payne

“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing…

— Roman Payne

“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious…

— Roman Payne

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle…

— Roman Payne

“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that…

— Roman Payne

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good…

— Roman Payne

“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and…

— Roman Payne

“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems…

— Roman Payne

“In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets of women and men, Of gods and dreams. I've known all the…

— Roman Payne

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might…

— Roman Payne

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the…

— Roman Payne

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came…

— Roman Payne