Ruth St. Denis Quotes

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• We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
• I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might…
• Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our…
• Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest…
• We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us
• As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love
• I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
• I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.
• Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
• It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
• We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
• We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
• But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
• I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people...…
• It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.
• I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity.…
• It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of…
• The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument…

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