Quotations About / On: DANCE

  • 41.
    yes, set fire to frostbitten crops,
    drag out forgotten fruit
    to dance the flame-tango,
    the smoke-gavotte,
    to live after all....
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Walk through the Notebooks.")
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  • 42.
    The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
    shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
    (Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. A Carriage from Sweden (l. 34-35). . . The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. (1981) Penguin Books.)
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  • 43.
    Harvey, Jr.: Dad?
    Harvey: Shut up and dance.
    (Tom Waldman (d. 1985), screenwriter, and Frank Waldman (d. 1990), U.S. screenwriter. Harvey, Jr. (Angus Duncan), Harvey (Bing Crosby), High Time, when Harvey, Jr., discovers his father in drag at a ball (1960).)
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  • 44.
    Don't forget the Dance Halls
    Warwick and Savoy,
    Where he picked his women, where
    He drank his liquid joy.
    (Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery.")
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  • 45.
    Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
    (José Bergamín (1895-1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 41, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).)
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  • 46.
    We dance round in a ring and suppose,
    But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Secret Sits, The Witness Tree (1942).)
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  • 47.
    Come to me, Jenny, let's dance a bit tonight,
    The long small tremor's at my back again....
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Perimeters.")
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  • 48.
    Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
    (Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czechoslovakian author, critic. "The Cat," pt. 3, Immortality (1991).)
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  • 49.
    At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 172, Houghton Mifflin (1906). Thoreau uses the term "employment" in the sense of "in order to have something to do.")
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  • 50.
    I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
    (Jane Austen (1775-1817), British novelist. Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey, ch. 10 (1818).)
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