But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
Dancing is my gift and my life. . . God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
Where there is no heart there is no art.
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
I decided to be the best and the smartest.
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that. ' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.