Roman Payne

Quotes

• “I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle o...”
• “We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and ba...”
• “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing fo...”
• “The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled b...”
• “I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the ga...”
• “When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew ...”
• “The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift t...”
• “With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / ...”
• “When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the wor...”
• “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
• “We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.”
• “In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”