147 Quotes by Glenn Haybittle

She said The Waves was the closest literature had ever come to expressing the blueprint of dance which for her was mapping out and choreographing the secret springs of identity. Dance, she said, was making the inner life visible and giving it a sequential form.

There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Each wearing the sacred shirt. Side stepping to the left in time to the echoing heartbeat of the drums and the echoing yearning of the songs. There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the firelit snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Expecting something wonderful to happen. Everyone singing. We will live again. We will live again.

Music can be the medium of sharing experience in a purified and heightened form; but it can also make being alone a stirring and highly privileged place to be.

Music makes you feel younger, more confident you can take on the world and the obstacles it throws at you.

Sadness, essentially, is the ghost of happiness.

It's only when I'm sad that I feel truly wise.

Italian as a language, she thinks, suits children with its singsong cadences and rising lingering inflections, its quick swinging gait and easy adaptability to argument, to passionate outbursts.

Rome lifts you up but won't let you settle down - it turns you into a bird without a nest.

Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity.