If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
AGNES DE MILLEIf you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEI think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEI learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEThe truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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