The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

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

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.