From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.
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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 PayneI’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.
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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 PayneTag: life time youth ageing aging waste growing-old payne
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 PayneTag: 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 PayneTag: art inspiration sleep literature creativity mysteries ideas mystery equations gifts math sleeping artistic mathematics muse waking muses mathematical payne
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