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Quotes About Dance

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop!
~ W. H. Auden
The greater the love, the more false to its object,Not to be born is the best for man;After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,Break the embraces, dance while you can.
~ W. H. Auden
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
~ Unknown
Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.
~ Unknown
Men have always danced bhangra, and women the female Punjabi equivalent, gidda, but not in the same place. Now, at sophisticated wedding receptions, there may be mixed discos with elderly bemused relatives watching and thinking how things have changed since their young days. Not, of course for the better!
~ Unknown
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?
~ W.B. Yeats
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.
~ W.B. Yeats
For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.
~ W.B. Yeats
So the platonic Year Whirls out new right and wrong, Whirls in the old instead; All men are dancers and their tread Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.
~ W.B. Yeats
IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE A MOST astonishing thing — Seventy years have I lived; (Hurrah for the flowers of Spring, For Spring is here again.) Seventy years have I lived No ragged beggar-man, Seventy years have I lived, Seventy years man and boy, And never have I danced for joy.
~ W.B. Yeats
An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.
~ W.B. Yeats
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
~ W.H. Auden
A friend is the old tale of Narcissus Not to be born is the best for man An active partner in something disgraceful Change your partner, dance while you can.
~ W.H. Auden
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers--a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position.
~ Unknown
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
~ Alexander Pope
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
~ Curt Sachs
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
~ Curt Sachs
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
~ Don McLean
Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.
~ Margaret Atwood
If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.
~ Billy Idol
I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.
~ Josh Hopkins
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
~ Martha Graham
There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.
~ Unknown