Dance Quote by James Broughton

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

“Poetry is dancing with words.”

— Ana Monnar

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

— Gabrielle Roth

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

— Shane Koyczan

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it…

— Havelock Ellis