“Everything went like a dance.”

— Roald Amundsen

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Roald Amundsen 19

Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the … 1872–1928

Theodore Roethke book The Far Field

Once More, the Round," ll. 11-12
The Far Field (1964)
Context: p>And I dance with William Blake
For love, for Love's sake;And everything comes to One,
As we dance on, dance on, dance on.</p

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“I had a rudimentary knowledge of dancing and had learned a bit of tap at dancing school, but it was mostly a case of picking it up as one went along.”

Bessie Love (1898–1986) American actress (1898–1986)

On dancing in film, from [Leslie, Wilkinson, What Are They Doing Now? Part 14, Photoplay Film Monthly]

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“I do not like dancing.. I love dancing.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non amo ballare.. io, amo far ballare.
Source: prevale.net

“I do not like dancing.. I love dancing.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Non amo ballare.. io, amo far ballare.

“From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 1"
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing. <!-- 128

“If a dancer dances - which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance or remembering in his body someone else's dance - but if the dancer dances, everything is there.... our ecstasy in dance comes from the possible gift of freedom, the exhilarating moment that this exposing of the bare energy can give us. What is meant is not license, but freedom…”

Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) American dancer

1952
from the front-page of the website of the Merce Cunningham Trust http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/

“Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

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, ...
"La Fanfarlo" (1847) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fanfarlo

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Everything went like a dance.”

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