All Ruth St. Denis Quotes
- We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. Hear
- 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… All
- 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… Art
- 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… Able
- 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 Fail
- 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 Dissonance
- I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop. Believe
- I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space. Beyond
- 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. Behold
- It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. Ballet
- We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. Capacity
- We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. Ballet
- But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe. Accompanied
- I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. Body
- 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...… All
- It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind. All
- I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words. Dance
- 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.… Become Something
- 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… Afterward
- 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… All
- You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. Allah