Dance Quote by William Butler Yeats

“O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we…

— W.B. Yeats

“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance is called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above…

— Anonymous

“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass, it didn’t…

— Edouard Levé

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

— Ruth St. Denis

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

— William Butler Yeats

“He was unreasonably drawn to her and touching her, just the slightest brush, made the feeling intensify, so dancing was an irresistible torment.”

— Sheri Richey

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“We’re all in a dance, she thought. Swirling past each other, same steps, same gestures, in and out of ancient patterns, unable to stop,…

— J.A. Pak

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

— William Butler Yeats

“Dancing is music made visible.”

— George Balanchine

“There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands; that is why i dance.”

— Paul Bamikole

“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.”

— Merce Cunningham