Mark Helprin Quotes

The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

Dancing is a beautiful thing.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

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

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

We were built to be rhythmic.

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world