22 Quotes by Ruth St. Denis

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.