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• We dance round in a ring and suppose.... Robert Frost
• I could dance yet-only had a good fiddle-I like music... Sylvia Dubois
• Some days you just gotta dance.... Dixie Chicks
• Dancers dance through their pain. I shrink from mine.... Mason Cooley
• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music... Charles Baudelaire
• Dance there upon the shore.... W. B. Yeats
• Dance is bigger than the physical body.... Judith Jamison
• Dance then wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I'll lead you all.... Sydney Carter
• People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.... Judith Jamison
• Let's face the music and dance.... Irving Berlin
• Dance as if no one was watching.... Irish Proverb
• The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.... Yiddish Proverb
• Life's a dance you learn as you go.... John Michael Montgomery
• There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.... José Bergamín
• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life.... Martha Graham
• Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.... Martha Graham
• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made..... Ted Shawn
• On with the dance! let joy be unconfined.... George Byron
• Think of the magic of that foot...upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle and the dance…is a celebration of that miracle.... Martha Graham
• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal.... Friedrich Nietzsche
• A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.... André Bjerke
• I dance with the dancers.... Walt Whitman
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.... Martha Graham
• To learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.... Martha Graham
• Nothing is more revealing than movement.... Martha Graham
• Dancing is a sweat job.... Fred Astaire
• There is only the dance.... T. S. Eliot
• Dancers aren’t pompous; they’re too tired.... José Limón
• And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.... W.B. Yeats
• Tall and straight, my mother taught me, this is how we dance .... Riverdance
• First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty— if you’re very lucky and have said your prayers.... George Balanchine
• There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself.... Mikhail Baryshnikov
• A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.... Agnes De Mille
• When you perform … you are out of yourself— larger and more potent, more beautiful.... Agnes De Mille
• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.... Margot Fonteyn
• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.... Martha Graham
• The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...
  Bodies never lie.... Agnes De Mille
• I don’t want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.... Leslie Browne

The following quotes were submitted by Damhsóir reader Jae.

• Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor... Kristy Nilsson
• Dance - no translation needed... Kristy Nilsson
• It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful, it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful... Kristy Nilsson
• Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music - and not the other way around... Kristy Nilsson
• Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion... Scott Nilsson