A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.
Roman PayneStichwörter: girls simile hairstyle
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Roman PayneStichwörter: art madness literature weird artists strangeness bizarre awkwardness clumsiness roman-payne good-art
I was glad to be made aware
that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),
is subject to natural law,
and can be made fat,
by such things as poor diet,
and alcohol.
Stichwörter: humor humour diet alcohol germans nanny roman-payne au-pair jeune-fille-au-pair
I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter’s supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.
Roman PayneStichwörter: life seasons autumn mortals payne goddesses demeter
The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
Roman PayneStichwörter: art inspiration sleep literature creativity mysteries ideas mystery equations gifts math sleeping artistic mathematics muse waking muses mathematical 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 side?
Ô, but tarry and bide,
ere you decide,
in both do confide.
Stichwörter: life growing-up experience poetry travel poems verse wandering rhymes rhyming-verse
The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
Stichwörter: humor writers humour marriage funny admiration authors desire roman weddings payne brides
Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led an army,
I am a wanderer. I cradle
'The Odyssey' nights while the
moon is waning, as if it were
the sweet body of a woman.
Stichwörter: women travel alexander-the-great sleeping the-iliad wandering payne the-odyssey
May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
Roman PayneStichwörter: humor men women humour funny living dying widows roman payne
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.
Stichwörter: life success writing writers work memories craft roman novelist payne novel-writing rooftop-soliloquy succeeding
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