“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
“I'm dancing in the shadows of life
And death is all around me tonight”
Whaler (1994), Right Beside You
Context: I'm dancing in the shadows of life
And death is all around me tonight
I miss you making love to me right
Beside myself I'm holding you tight
Someone is waiting for me to rise
And drive into the ocean I cried
And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep
Beside myself my soul to keep Right beside you I see
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always.
La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ...
"La Fanfarlo" (1847) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fanfarlo
from Eric Maschwitz's lyrics to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square with music by Manning Sherwin
