“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Novelist Copy Share Image
“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of… — Roman Payne Amour Copy Share Image
“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.” — Roman Payne Painting Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Apollinaire Copy Share Image
To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die… — Roman Payne Ambition Copy Share Image
“I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made… — Roman Payne Alcohol Copy Share Image
“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than… — Roman Payne Love Copy Share Image
“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song.… — Roman Payne Dance Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Balcony Copy Share Image
“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.” — Roman Payne Accidents Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Angel Copy Share Image
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One… — Roman Payne Cold Copy Share Image
“A glorious death would be in my final breath to take before I die, to hear one final time on my belovèd's… — Roman Payne Death Copy Share Image
“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 Automobiles Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Adorable Copy Share Image
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her… — Roman Payne Affection Copy Share Image
“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed… — Roman Payne Payne Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Art Copy Share Image
“From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.” — Roman Payne Time Copy Share Image
“My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle… — Roman Payne Arcadian Copy Share Image
“I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.” — Roman Payne Fear Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Ancient Copy Share Image
“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues… — Roman Payne Affairs Copy Share Image
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares… — Roman Payne Empowerment Copy Share Image
