Agnes de Mille Quotes

From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.

I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.

Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.

Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.