ballet quotes
September 8, 2010
Dancing is the body made poetic.
- Ernst Bacon
Let us read and let us dance -two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- Voltaire
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Alexander Pope
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes de Mille
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
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
- Frank Hubbard
If the dance is pleasing, even the lame will crawl to it.
- Africa
It is sweet to dance to violins when Love and Life are fair; to dance to flutes, to dance to lutes is delicate and rare: but it is not sweet with nimble feet to dance upon the air!
- Oscar Wilde
Mine is a proud village, such as it is. We are best when dancing.
- Makah
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
- Agnes de Mille
- Ernst Bacon
Let us read and let us dance -two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- Voltaire
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
- Alexander Pope
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes de Mille
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
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
- Frank Hubbard
If the dance is pleasing, even the lame will crawl to it.
- Africa
It is sweet to dance to violins when Love and Life are fair; to dance to flutes, to dance to lutes is delicate and rare: but it is not sweet with nimble feet to dance upon the air!
- Oscar Wilde
Mine is a proud village, such as it is. We are best when dancing.
- Makah
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
- Agnes de Mille