The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.