Dance Quote by William Butler Yeats

“heads lolled, a haunted look in their eyes. One of the dancers we passed by was an old lady. She flailed and twitched”

— C.N. Crawford

“she treads lightly old man.”

— John Green

“Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.”

— Kate Morton

“They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.”

— Dee Henderson

“Like in a graceful dance, in their interactions, there had never been any stifling, awkward, or rough movements—just light, fleeting touches.”

— Torres and Firsht

“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.”

— John Williams

“Women found old men amusing, I guessed. At my age, I had learned to discern passing amusement from any woman’s true romantic interest in…

— H.T. Night

“They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the…

— William Faulkner

“I dance like the wind.”

— Edward Albee

“I weave the papers through the branches, in a long loop. Up and down, my knees bending. My arms above my head, like the…

— Allie Condie

“But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private,…

— Karen Russell