Poetry Quote by Roman Payne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.”

“I like the posture, but not the yoga.”

“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.”

“A tired man lay down his head”

“We made love outdoors”

“Did I live the spring I’d sought?”

“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”

“But I want to write poetry”

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart”

“J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère”

“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting”