Dance
Quotes

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis

Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.
- Noah Webster

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
- Francis Bacon

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden

Dancing's a touchstone that true beauty tries, nor suffers charms that nature's hand denies.
- Soame Jenyns