Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

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

Language always gives you away.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Your body language shapes who you are

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

Body language is more powerful than words.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

My body loves me in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to get the message.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.

Get in front of a mirror, know your body.