We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
Ruth St. DenisYou and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
Ruth St. DenisI want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
Ruth St. DenisDancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth
Ruth St. Denis