No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Dance in the body you have.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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