Roman Payne

“Analogies are like lies.”

— Roman Payne

“We all die in the middle of something.”

— Roman Payne

“Women are extraordinary creatures!”

— Roman Payne

“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”

— Roman Payne

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

— Roman Payne

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

— Roman Payne

“May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

— Roman Payne

“A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.”

— Roman Payne

“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”

— Roman Payne

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die…

— Roman Payne

“In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude. Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food. On which is your…

— Roman Payne

“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to…

— Roman Payne

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences…

— Roman Payne

“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be…

— Roman Payne

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

— Roman Payne

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift…

— Roman Payne

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of…

— Roman Payne

“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand…

— Roman Payne

“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains…

— Roman Payne

“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When…

— Roman Payne

“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to…

— Roman Payne

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the…

— Roman Payne

“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the…

— Roman Payne

“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead…

— Roman Payne

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at…

— 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

“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on…

— Roman Payne

“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed…

— Roman Payne

“Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the…

— Roman Payne

“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just…

— Roman Payne

“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle…

— Roman Payne

“...You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on…

— Roman Payne

“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One…

— Roman Payne

“She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.”

— Roman Payne

“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”

— 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

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

— Roman Payne