–>How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I could believe only in a God who would know how to dance. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. – Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! – Constanze
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. – Agnes de Mille
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. – Terri Guillemets
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. – Martha Graham
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. – Author Unknown
Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. – George Bernard Shaw
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. – Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. – George Balanchine
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. – Agnes De Mille
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. – Faith Whittlesey
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. – Martha Graham
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. – Shanna LaFleur
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. – Charles Baudelaire
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. – Terri Guillemets