These dance quotes are by a variety of different people including philosophers, poets, writers, scientists, gurus and dancers. Also, they were selected to be included here for being inspirational, thought provoking, funny, quizzical and other reasons. In addition, they do not cast dancing as one dimensional but multi-dimensional, light and dark, positive and negative. Additionally, they span several centuries in time. Dance is often found in writing, drawings, paintings, music and other forms of artistic expression.

Dance Quotes

Dancing in Literature, Poetry & Novels

The religious leader, Mata Hari said, “The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” Meanwhile, genius Albert Einstein expressed, “Dancers are  athletes of god.” Also, the philosopher, Nietzsche said, “We should consider every day lost in which we don’t dance.” Moreover, the poet, Baudelaire stated, “Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”

I have been dancing for 50+ years and writing poetry for 20+ years.  So, for me “dance is poetry in motion, ” PattieWells.com!

Sometimes the dance is used to describe what nature does as in this quote from Rabindranath Tagore, “Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”

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