
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
The quote "The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances." is famous quote attributed to Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735–1814), Prince of Ligne.
Le congrès ne marche pas, il danse.
Reported in the Edinburgh Review, July 1890, p. 244, which praised it as part of "[o]ne of the Prince de Ligne's speeches that will last forever".
Le congrès ne marche pas, il danse.
“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
“Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.”
Source: Bitter of Tongue
“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
“To keep through life the posture of the grave,
While others walk and run and dance and leap.”
Sonnets of the Wingless Hours https://archive.org/details/sonnetswingless01leegoog (1894).
“When the music does not dance, it changes disc.”
Original: (it) Quando la musica non danza, cambia disco.
Source: prevale.net
“When the music does not dance, it changes disc.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
“When the music does not dance, it changes disc.”
Quando la musica non danza, cambia disco.