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“Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love.”

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This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form. more

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John Francis Waller

John Francis Waller (1810-1894) was a renowned British poet known for his profound emotions and rich imagination in his poetry, which had a significant influence on later poets. more

“Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.”

People Mind Body Young Order Essentials Exciting Dancing Excellence Excellent Muscles Occupation Ballet Amusement Cheerfulness Sedentary Perspiration

Author:Noah Webster

“I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.”

Acting Alive Fronts Fool Mirrors Dancing Excitement Ballet

Author:Jody Watley

“I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.”

Thinking Looks Girl Steps Building Burning Ballet Burning Buildings Dance Steps

Author:Frank Hubbard

“I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.”

Persons Hands Remember Exciting Fruit Collaboration Ballet Unlikely Arthur Conan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author:Alan Bennett

“In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.”

Hands Eye Liberty Arms Embrace Ballet

Author:George Gascoigne

“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.”

World Giving Looks Kind Self Individual Modern This World Dancing Our Time Dancer Ballet Isolated Sinister Hypnosis Portents

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.”

Feet Arms Legs Charm Ballet Muse Extending Twinkling

Author:Lord Byron

“Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”

Saws Flower Thousand Ten Ballet Glances Daffodil

Author:William Wordsworth

“The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.”

Looks Art Made Body Age Young Creatures Glory Art Is Instruments Dull Dancer Leap Ballet Sensitivity Envious

Author:Martha Graham

“The greater the fool the better the dancer.”

Greater Fool Dancing Dancer Ballet

Book:The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life

Source: The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life

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