22 Quotes by 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 can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

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

When you are fifty, you’re neither young nor old; you’re just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you’re phenomenal!

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.