Dance Quote by Ezra Pound

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy whenit departs too far from the dance; that poetry…

— Anonymous

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

Where words cease, there music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Where words leave off, music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

— Jean Sibelius

When words leave off, music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

— A. J. Pritchard

For me, music begins where words end.

— Jean Sibelius

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden