"I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement."

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Source : Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

Isadora Duncan

#Dance Quotes #Expression Quotes #Body Quotes

“We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.”
“I would want to bring a certain kind of unity and awareness to different things. Even in the 80s, I wanted to do something with Unicef, and I wrote a song for Unicef, but I didn't have any means or the celebrity.”
“I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.”
“I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.”
“If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books
“I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.”
“It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”
“As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.”

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