Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress.
– D.H. Mondfleur
Category Archives: DANCING
It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
― Rumi
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 7 February 1931
C.J. DENNIS
The Dawn Dance
What do you think I saw to-day when I arose at dawn?
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn!
Bobbing here, bowing there, gossiping away,
And how I wished that you were there to see the merry play!
But you were snug abed, my boy, blankets to your chin,
Nor dreamed of dancing birds without or sunbeams dancing in.
Grey Thrush, he piped the tune for them. I peeped out through the glass
Between the window curtains, and I saw them on the grass —
Merry little fairy folk, dancing up and down,
Blue bonnet, yellow skirt, cloaks of grey and brown,
Underneath the wattle-tree, silver in the dawn,
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn.
“God is good, but never dance in a small boat”
A nobler yearning never broke her rest Than but to dance and sing, be gaily drest.
Camelus saltat. — The camel is dancing. Spoken of a person employed in some incongruous and surprising manner.
Michael was a monkey, and a lonely chimpanzee, Trying hard to find a lady chimp to share his tree.
There was but one hiccup in this quest to soothe his heart:
Every time he talked to monkey girls he’d start to fart.
http://kingpoetry.com/monk.htm
Queensland Figaro (Brisbane, Qld. : 1901 – 1936), Saturday 4 October 1930,
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”
Oh! The Places You’ll Go ~ Dr. Seuss
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 4 February 1939,
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Revelations of re-knowing remembering
Self re-visited.
A stranger in a tidy living-room
Waiting to be announced.
By: Maggie Graham
PPlease, just for me, forget the steps… Hold me, feel the music, and give me your soul. Then I can give you mine.
http://www.verytangostore.com/quotes.html
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
(Janet Fitch, “White Oleander”
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. Christopher Morley
foto of nana lynne in raleigh nsw summertime 2013
I’ll dance with mob on this red Land, munda wiru
place
I’ll dance away them half-caste lies ‘cos I got my
Nanas face!
Ali Cobby Eckermann
‘First Time I Met My Grandmother’
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/new_site/awbr_archive/147/Cobby.htm
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
― Merce Cunningham
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 – 1893), Thursday 15 May 1890
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
http://www.nellymazloummadri.org.gr/dance_quotes.htm
The Baby’s Dance
Taylor, Ann (1782 – 1830)
DANCE little baby, dance up high,
Never mind baby, mother is by ;
Crow and caper, caper and crow,
There little baby, there you go ;
Up to the ceiling, down to the ground,
Backwards and forwards, round and round ;
Dance little baby, and mother shall sing,
With the merry coral, ding, ding, ding.
“You have nothing to dance about until you are over the age of 30.” — Bert Balladine
http://www.shahina.com/poetry/quotes.htm
I’ll dance with mob on this red Land, munda wiru
place
I’ll dance away them half-caste lies ‘cos I got my
Nanas face!
Ali Cobby Eckermann.
little bit long time. Australian Poetry Centre, Balclava, 2009.
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
By Dick Turner – © Joan Small
The everlasting daisies form a carpet pink and white,
A fairyland of frosting, a vision of delight,
Ghost gums dance in mystic moonlight to a whispering refrain,
Yet the spirit of the inland
Lives in mulga after rain.
http://www.joansmallpoetryandbooks.com/DickTurner_Poems.html
“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― H.P. Lovecraft
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ― Rumi
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
—Japanese
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
Agnes De Mille
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
Billy Corgan
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
– Al Unser
“One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods
Busy days galore…thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.”
― Al Cash
“I want you to get swept away. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture, dance like a dervish.”
from the movie “Meet Joe Black”
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