~ It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ~
~ Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~
~ Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~
~ The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~
~ We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~
~ And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~
~ I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~
~ Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~
~ Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~
~ Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~
~ Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~
~ Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ~