Ruth St. Denis Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And in some mystic hour
  I shall move to unheard rhythms
  Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
  And you will know the language
  Of my wordless poems
  And will come to me
  For that is why I dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Moving, Heaven

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• I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

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  Space, Long, Dancing

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• I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

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  Motivational, Dance, Mean

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• We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

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  Dance, Ballet, Denial

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• Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

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  Essence, World, Divine

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• We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

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  Song, Stars, Night

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• The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

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  Dance, Real, Space

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• Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.

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  Art, Receiving, Body

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• I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

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  Dance, Long, People

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• You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

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  Dance, Denial, Hinduism

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• I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

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  Evil, Feelings, Done

  Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969

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• It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

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  Dance, Missions, Mankind

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• As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

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  Understanding, And Love, Denial

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• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

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  Dance, Boys, Feet

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• But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

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  Dance, Reality, Dancing

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• It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

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  Dance, Ballet, Doe

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• We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Voice

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• I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

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  Temptation, Goldfish, Moral

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• Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Men, Gestures, Able

  "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And by the Gods
  I will!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Should

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• It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

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  Dance, Religious, Art

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• We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

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  Mountain, Denial, World

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• every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

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  Artist, Two, Symphony

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• I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

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  Stars, Believe, Creative

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