I 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. DenisWe have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Ruth St. DenisI see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
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