A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

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.

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