Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all. Isadora Duncan More Quotes by Isadora Duncan More Quotes From Isadora Duncan 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. Isadora Duncan great-work writing men Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love! Isadora Duncan revolution fellow-man men 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. Isadora Duncan girl memories children When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'. Isadora Duncan dance tragedy should-have I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born. Isadora Duncan unity diversity movement I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. Isadora Duncan theatre perfect night So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Isadora Duncan matrimony marriage firsts People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life. Isadora Duncan
