DANCE QUOTES IV

quotations about dance & dancing

And you shall seek me till you reach
The tangled tide advancing,
And you shall find upon the beach
The traces of my dancing

STELLA BENSON

Twenty

Tags: Stella Benson


Dancing? Y-yes ... dancing ... I love ... dancing ... (It makes me look like a coma victim being stood up and zapped with a cattle prod).

JESSE ARMSTRONG & SAM BAIN

Peep Show


Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

attributed, Telling It Like It Is


Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.

SHEL SILVERSTEIN

A Light in the Attic


Time and dancing are twins, begot together; time is the first-born, being the measure of all moving; and dancing, the moving of all in measure.

IBRAHIM I

attributed, Day's Collacon


Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.

JOHN MILTON

Comus


He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard III


On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

MERCE CUNNINGHAM

attributed, Dancing Lives


Those who teach children to dance, instruct them in the quick steps to perdition.

J. KNAPP

attributed, Day's Collacon


Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

IRVING BERLIN

"Cheek to Cheek"

Tags: Irving Berlin


Could not the art of dance, at its best, be read as gesturing toward the resurrection of the body celebrated in 1 Corinthians 15, a fully physical body certainly, but a body whose life vastly surpasses that of the body of this life ... the body riven by sin and running toward death?

JEREMY BEGBIE

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts

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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

WILLIAM STAFFORD

Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems


Dance, dance, as long as ye may,
Nature gets up a great ballet around us;
Her stage-room is vast, so come, trip it away,
For Life's Opera cannot be perfect without us.

ELIZA COOK

"Dancing-Song", Eliza Cook's Journal


If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

JUDITH JAMISON

Dancing Spirit


As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Things Fall Apart


Never trust a man who can dance.

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades of Grey


Dancing is an active motion of the body, which proceedeth from the lightness of the heart.

A. FANDANGO

"Of Dancing"


Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W. B. YEATS

The Land of Heart's Desire


Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

CHINUA ACHEBE

No Longer at Ease