“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”
Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American dancer and choreographer
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
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“I only pointed out the paths that lead
The panting youth to steep Parnassus' head,
And showed the tuneful Muses from afar,
Mixed in a solemn choir and dancing there.”
Ipse viam tantum potui docuisse repertam
Aonas ad montes, longeque ostendere Musas
Plaudentes celsae choreas in vertice rupis.
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Book III, line 533
De Arte Poetica (1527)
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
Modern Manners (1983)