--- title: "2 Artemis Quotes By Roman Payne" description: "2 Artemis quotes by Roman Payne. Plus more from Roman Payne and more Artemis sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e5/roman-payne-1959_acteon_not-to-waste-the-spring-i-threw-down-eve_841859.jpg" --- > [“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To dance what I could dance! And join with everyone! I wandered with a reckless heart beneath the newborn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/not-to-waste-the-spring-i-threw-down-everything-and-ran-into-the-open/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e5/roman-payne-1959_acteon_not-to-waste-the-spring-i-threw-down-eve_841859.jpg) > [“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/i-m-not-ashamed-of-heroic-ambitions-if-man-and-woman-can-only-dance/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48f/roman-payne-1959_aphrodite_i-m-not-ashamed-of-heroic-ambitions-if-m_888779.jpg) ## Other authors on Artemis - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eoin-colfer-33368.jpg) Eoin Colfer 67 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artemis/eoin-colfer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 44 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artemis/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artemis/rick-riordan/) ## More by Roman Payne > [“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/she-is-my-morning-she-is-my-evening-we-have-a-love-that-blooms-over/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/wanderess-wanderess-when-did-you-feel-your-most-euphoric-kiss-was-i/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/no-man-sings-as-beautifully-as-when-his-song-is-accompanied-by-a/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/as-i-look-back-on-my-life-i-think-of-how-few-rules-should-be-followed/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and caressed, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/the-green-eyed-angel-came-in-less-than-a-half-hour-and-fell-docile-as/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“When a Wanderess has been caged, Or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, and lives most heroic, When she smiles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/when-a-wanderess-has-been-caged-or-perched-with-her-wings-clipped-she/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/never-did-the-world-make-a-queen-of-a-girl-who-hides-in-houses-and/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/champagne-arrived-in-fl-tes-on-trays-and-we-emptied-them-with/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/we-look-up-to-see-if-it-is-day-or-night-if-stars-burn-cool-and-moon/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“We were hooked when we woke. We had arms for each other. But I yearned to resume My dreams of another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/we-were-hooked-when-we-woke-we-had-arms-for-each-other-but-i-yearned/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/we-made-love-outdoors-without-a-roof-i-like-most-without-stove-to/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/i-was-angry-at-myself-for-my-inclination-to-vice-i-longed-for-the-day/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“In my experience, when a woman's cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed not out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/in-my-experience-when-a-woman-s-cruelty-is-combined-with-love-and/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/with-the-need-for-the-self-in-the-time-of-another-i-left-my-seaport/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) > [“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roman-payne/coffee-my-delight-of-the-morning-yoga-my-delight-of-the-noon-then/) [Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roman-payne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artemis/roman-payne/#itemlist", "name": "2 Artemis Quotes By Roman Payne", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To dance what I could dance! And join with everyone! I wandered with a reckless heart beneath the newborn sun. First stepping through the blushing dawn, I crossed beneath a garden bower, counting every hermit thrush, counting every hour. 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We slept, I slept so lucidly, with hopes to stay this memory. I woke in dusty afternoon, Alone, the nymphs had left too soon, I searched where perched upon my knees Heard only larks' songs in the trees. \"Be you, the larks, my far-flung maids? With lilac feet and branchlike braids... Who sing sweet odes to my elation, in your larking exaltation!\" With these, my clumsy, carefree words, The birds they stirred and flew away, \"Be I, poor Actaeon,\" I cried, \"Be dead… Before they, like Hippodamia, be gone astray!\" Yet these words, too late, remained unheard, By lark, that parting, morning bird. I looked upon its parting flight, and smelled the coming of the night; desirous, I gazed upon its jaunt, as Leander gazes Hellespont. Now the hour was ripe and dark, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the value of my hours. Time was spent or time was tossed, Life was loved and life was lost. 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