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

“We made love outdoors”

“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.”

“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”

“Whilst the wolflets bayed,”

“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.”

“Sometimes, a child will go under”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”

“أغارُ عليكَ”

“Your daughter is ugly.”

“She thought men were saviors...”