Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

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

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it