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“O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

Quote by W.B. Yeats

Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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“Dance with me." Blinking, first at his offered palm and then at his features, I asked, "Why?" Not immediately replying, he reached for me, pulled me to my feet, and slid an arm around my waist. I allowed him to hold my body against his, fit our hands together, and sway to the lovely music. Begrudgingly, I admitted to myself he had great rhythm. Someone had taught him to dance. Jehtro dipped his mouth to my ear, his beard tickling my neck as he finally whispered an answer to my question, "Because you want me to hold you, but you don't know how to ask.”

Dance

Book:Grin and Beard It

Source: Grin and Beard It

“We need to learn to dance more softly.”

Kind Kindness Dance Gentle Gentleness

Book:Dancing Softly

Source: Dancing Softly

“Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness.”

Heart Sometimes Stars Sadness Sky Movement Sorrow Embrace Dancing Dance Rhythm Heartache Joyful Frozen Sculpture Star Always Open Heart Dance Quotes Twinkling Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Open Armed

Author:Munia Khan

“Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. At the edge of perception, weird things dance and howl.”

Simple Perception Dance Ghost Weird Howl Edge

Book:The Girl with Ghost Eyes

Source: The Girl with Ghost Eyes

“There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.”

Joy Dance

Book:Revelations: the Autobiography

Source: Revelations: the Autobiography

“We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.”

Mind Soul Psychology Dance Thought

Author:Ilyas Kassam

“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”

Inspirational Philosophical Common Sense Realization Reality Quotes Sad But True Literary

Author:Marc Jampole

“CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed. Sadie Kane”

Humor Dance Apocalypse

Author:Rick Riordan

“Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so bad I don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I'm glad. Because I get up off my pillow and I flip on the light. I get down and get hip in the still of the night I stretch and I yawn and then I breathe real deep And dance myself to sleep. I hoof around my beddie just a-tappin' my toes Before I know what's happened I'm a-ready to doze Got some partners I can count the boogie-woogie sheep I dance myself to sleep.”

Childhood Dance Sleeplessness

Book:It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

“Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.”

Dance South Florida

Author:Abby Lee Miller

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