Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
Tag: libraries writing writers work literature creativity literary research lifestyle studying ibiza literary-life nightclubs partying writing-style
Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.
Roman PayneTag: carpe-diem death mythology adventures troy seize-the-day agamemnon jeanne-of-arc ovid
It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!
Tag: life music laughter beauty carpe-diem loss rain sorrow dying regret trains automobiles holding-hands leaves subway
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
Roman PayneTag: writing sex relationships lying liars husbands fathers lovers roman affairs relations roman-payne women-writers
I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
Roman PayneTag: adventure travel exploration luck roman wandering payne roman-payne good-luck
With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
Roman PayneTag: life poetry work despair decisions hope poem travel choices poems aloneness hope-and-despair seaport
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneTag: women sleep dreams heroism classics alexander-the-great greek homer roman the-iliad the-odyssey waning-moon
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
Roman PayneTag: reading books soul literature fortune europe roman streets payne roman-payne fortunes gypsies gypsy
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.
Roman PayneTag: money writing gold technology literature newspapers modern-life modernity cash writing-style apollinaire credit-cards digital-age literary-style
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneTag: women sleep dreams heroism alexander-the-great army the-iliad wandering traveling the-odyssey waning-moon wayfaring
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