203 Quotes by Roman Payne

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!

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.

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

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.

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

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

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.

We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!