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.

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

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

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

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.