Ruth St. Denis

“I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.”

“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.”

“We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.”

“You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.”

“We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.”

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

“The gods have meant that I should dance, and by the gods, I will dance!!! For in some mystic hour I shall move to the unheard rhythms of the cosmic orchestra of heaven, and you will know the language of my wordless poems, and will come to me... for that is why I dance.""Los dioses me destinaron a bailar, ¡y por los dioses bailaré! Pues en alguna hora mística me moveré a los ritmos ináuditos de la orquesta cósmica del cielo, y conocerás el lenguaje de mis poemas sin palabras, y vendrás a mí... pues por éso es que bailo.”