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

Roman Payne

Mots clés experience time payne



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I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.

Roman Payne

Mots clés pain time pleasure payne



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I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

Roman Payne

Mots clés art food work ambition creativity ideas artists eating activity payne



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The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Roman Payne

Mots clés life time youth ageing aging waste growing-old payne



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

Roman Payne

Mots clés adventure travel exploration luck roman wandering payne roman-payne good-luck



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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.

Roman Payne

Mots clés women travel alexander-the-great sleeping the-iliad wandering payne the-odyssey



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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.

Roman Payne

Mots clés humor writers humour marriage funny admiration authors desire roman weddings payne brides



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I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Roman Payne

Mots clés reading books soul literature fortune europe roman streets payne roman-payne fortunes gypsies gypsy



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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 Payne

Mots clés life seasons autumn mortals payne goddesses demeter



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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 Payne

Mots clés art inspiration sleep literature creativity mysteries ideas mystery equations gifts math sleeping artistic mathematics muse waking muses mathematical payne



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