Ruth St. Denis Quotes About Dance

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

• 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.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Long, People

• 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

• 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.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Real, Space

• 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!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Boys, Feet

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Missions, Mankind

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Denial, Hinduism

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Denial

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Motivational, Dance, Mean

• 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.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Religious, Art

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Doe

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Reality, Dancing

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Should

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