Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variant: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.”
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
The Things They Carried (1990), On the Rainy River
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Context: I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast... it's a blast. It really is fun, because dammit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight...
