Belly Dance Quotes

• "While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance." -Hans Bos
  
  
• "...The moment one knows how, one begins to die a little. Living is a form of not being sure, of not knowing what next or how.....One leaps in the dark!" -Agnes Demille, Dance Choreographer
  
  
• "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique. And if you block it it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it." -Martha Graham
  
  
• "O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?" -William Butler Yeats
  
  
• "Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live."
  From *Serpent of the Nile*, Wendy Buonaventura. Saqi Books, London, 1989. p196. (per jlewis .sig file)
  
  
• On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
  No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
  To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
  ---Lord Byron, *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage*, Canto III, Stanza 22
  
  
• The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.... Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no more translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
  ---Havelock Ellis, *The Dance of Life*, Chap. 2
  
  
• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
  Jest, and youthful Jollity,
  Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
  Nods and Becks and wreathe`d Smiles....
  Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,
  And Laughter holding both his sides,
  Come, and trip it, as you go,
  On the light fantastic toe.
  ---John Milton, *L'Allegro*, line 25
  
  
• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
  ---Friedrich Nietzsche, *The Twilight of the Idols*, Things the Germans Lack, 7
  
  
• When you do dance, I wish you
  A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
  Nothing but that.
  ---William Shakespeare, *The Winter's Tale*, Sc. 3, line 140