“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
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“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
John Wain (1925–1994) British writer
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.”
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
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”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
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.
Charles Baudelaire book La Fanfarlo
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, ... <br class="br">"La Fanfarlo" (1847) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fanfarlo
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
from Eric Maschwitz's lyrics to A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square with music by Manning Sherwin