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  Dance until the earth dance.
 
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Translations.")
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  Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

 
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Burnt Norton (Four Quartets). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  Hurry, Godfather death,
Mister tyranny,
each message you give
has a dance to it,
a fish twitch,
a little crotch dance.

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Godfather Death.")
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  hopes dance best on bald men's hair
 
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood (l. 9). . . Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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  All the shad'wy tribes of Mind,
In braided dance their murmurs joined,

 
(William Collins (1721-1759), British poet. Ode on the Poetical Character (l. 47-48). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  a dance sacred as the sap in
the trees,

 
(Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Easter Morning (l. 99-100). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  bent nails
dance all over the surfacing
like maggots

 
(Alan Dugan (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Love Song: I and Thou (l. 5-7). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  Let's face the music and dance.
 
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. song title, Follow the Fleet, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1936). Music composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).)
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  It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!

 
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. repr. In Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. J.B. Foreman (1966). The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt. 2, st. 9 (1898).)
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  Ah, it is sweet on the hills,
to dance in sacred faun-pelt,
to dance until one falls faint,
to beat the sacred dance-beat
until one drops down
worn out.

 
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Translations.")
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