"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." -Shanna La Fleur

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” — Martha Graham

"I explained it when I danced it." — Margot Fonteyn

"Dance isn't something that can be explained in words. It has to be danced." — Paige Arden

"Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time." — George Balanchine

"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?" — William Butler Yeats

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.” ― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ― Eckhart Tolle

“Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.” ― Robert Frost