I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 381

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari (1876 - 1917)

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly¹ in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)