Roman Payne quote: "A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?"

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.
ROMAN PAYNE

I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern po...
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This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart...
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All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in t...
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Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when f...
ROMAN PAYNE

When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Sto...
ROMAN PAYNE

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, a...
ROMAN PAYNE

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few count...
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I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only bee...
ROMAN PAYNE

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each t...
ROMAN PAYNE

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at onc...
ROMAN PAYNE

They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an a...
ROMAN PAYNE

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footra...
ROMAN PAYNE

The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
ROMAN PAYNE

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husban...
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When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like...
ROMAN PAYNE

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here yo...
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When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a her...
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What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the...
ROMAN PAYNE

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on th...
ROMAN PAYNE

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.
ROMAN PAYNE

We made love outdoors
Without a roof, I like most,
Without stove, to make love, assuming ...
ROMAN PAYNE

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good w...
ROMAN PAYNE

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfold...
ROMAN PAYNE

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Man...
ROMAN PAYNE

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspape...
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Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
ROMAN PAYNE

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that c...
ROMAN PAYNE

It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE

She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tea...
ROMAN PAYNE

Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,
let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body,...
ROMAN PAYNE

Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew...
ROMAN PAYNE

Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the sourc...
ROMAN PAYNE

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must.
A man to be happy, however,...
ROMAN PAYNE

SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy...
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I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she need...
ROMAN PAYNE

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.
ROMAN PAYNE

In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
ROMAN PAYNE

Spanish rain,
A maiden’s dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancho...
ROMAN PAYNE

Women are extraordinary creatures!
ROMAN PAYNE

Wanderess, Wanderess,
weave us a story of seduction and ruse.
Heroic be the Wanderess, <...
ROMAN PAYNE

Spanish rain,
A maiden’s dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancho...
ROMAN PAYNE

Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
ROMAN PAYNE

I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it...
ROMAN PAYNE

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down...
ROMAN PAYNE

I was glad to be made aware
that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),
is subject to natural...
ROMAN PAYNE

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders ...
ROMAN PAYNE

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness,
Her soul was taken from sani...
ROMAN PAYNE

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart...
ROMAN PAYNE

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

Wherever you go in the next
catastrophé
Be it sickroom, or prison,
or cemet’ry ROMAN PAYNE

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness�...
ROMAN PAYNE

The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first gard...
ROMAN PAYNE

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Home...
ROMAN PAYNE

I like the posture, but not the yoga.
I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like...
ROMAN PAYNE

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you...
ROMAN PAYNE

In the boundaryless forests,
there’re dancers of nude.
Yet in the confines of pasture, ...
ROMAN PAYNE

We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the ...
ROMAN PAYNE

The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed...
ROMAN PAYNE

Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.
ROMAN PAYNE

We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My d...
ROMAN PAYNE

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ...
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Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary ...
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Did I live the spring I’d sought?
It’s true in joy, I walked along,
took part in dance...
ROMAN PAYNE

I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a ...
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Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, ...
ROMAN PAYNE

She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
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Analogies are like lies.
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Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Ah, youth!
It was a beautiful night...
The moon was out of orbit.
The stars were awry...
ROMAN PAYNE

The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
ROMAN PAYNE

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, yo...
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In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n�...
ROMAN PAYNE

Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade...
ROMAN PAYNE

I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,
I must prepar...
ROMAN PAYNE

There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembli...
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You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, becaus...
ROMAN PAYNE

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

Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that ...
ROMAN PAYNE

All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
ROMAN PAYNE

Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon a...
ROMAN PAYNE

It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Wanderess, Wanderess,
emporte-nous dans un récit
de séduction et de ruse.
Héroï...
ROMAN PAYNE

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would ...
ROMAN PAYNE

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment o...
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I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my bo...
ROMAN PAYNE

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree ...
ROMAN PAYNE

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in...
ROMAN PAYNE

Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in ...
ROMAN PAYNE

She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully ea...
ROMAN PAYNE

She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.
ROMAN PAYNE

The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life b...
ROMAN PAYNE

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'No...
ROMAN PAYNE

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken p...
ROMAN PAYNE

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them...
ROMAN PAYNE

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.
ROMAN PAYNE

I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot t...
ROMAN PAYNE

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of...
ROMAN PAYNE

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the law...
ROMAN PAYNE

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author...
ROMAN PAYNE

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

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are m...
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Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a fa...
ROMAN PAYNE

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the...
ROMAN PAYNE

So the nymphs they spoke,
we kissed and laid.
By noontime’s hour
our love was made....
ROMAN PAYNE

People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and t...
ROMAN PAYNE

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination...
ROMAN PAYNE

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.
ROMAN PAYNE

All that I desire in life are three...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A pu...
ROMAN PAYNE

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
ROMAN PAYNE

The hour of spring was dark at last,
sensuous memories of sunlight past,
I stood alone in ...
ROMAN PAYNE

Not to waste the spring
I threw down everything,
And ran into the open world
To sing ...
ROMAN PAYNE

From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
...
ROMAN PAYNE

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.
ROMAN PAYNE

Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE

I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked a...
ROMAN PAYNE

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a l...
ROMAN PAYNE

I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quick...
ROMAN PAYNE

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would wri...
ROMAN PAYNE

Our eyes will know the heavens if our lips stay for each other.
ROMAN PAYNE

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.
ROMAN PAYNE

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when f...
ROMAN PAYNE

Si je dois mourir dans cette belle vie, je veux que ça soit fait par tes belles mains.
ROMAN PAYNE

It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to...
ROMAN PAYNE

I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks a...
ROMAN PAYNE

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explos...
ROMAN PAYNE

Let these men sing out their songs,
they've been walking all day long,
all their fortune's...
ROMAN PAYNE

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of o...
ROMAN PAYNE

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the...
ROMAN PAYNE

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it thro...
ROMAN PAYNE

I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that ...
ROMAN PAYNE

This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful...
ROMAN PAYNE

A girl without braids
is like a city without bridges.
ROMAN PAYNE

A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t...
ROMAN PAYNE

To wander is to be alive.
ROMAN PAYNE

I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything ...
ROMAN PAYNE

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care ...
ROMAN PAYNE

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination...
ROMAN PAYNE

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.
ROMAN PAYNE

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.
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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i...
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I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that ...
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This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op...
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that...
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i...
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur...
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t...
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A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

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A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

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