Dance Quotes

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
~Martha Graham

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

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
~D.H. Lawrence

Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger.
~Sweetpea Tyler

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.
~ Kristy Nilsson

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."?
~Dave Sokolowski

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.
~Ezra Pound

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
~Ruth St. Denis

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.
~Peter Saint James

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
~John Wain

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
~Hopi Indian Saying

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
~Terence

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
~Author Unknown

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
~Source Unknown

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
~Author Unknown

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~William James