Ruth St. Denis Quotes

American - Dancer January 20, 1879 - July 21, 1968

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Ruth St. Denis

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Ruth St. Denis

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Ruth St. Denis

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Ruth St. Denis

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Ruth St. Denis

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Ruth St. Denis