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Dance until the earth dance.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Choros Translations.")
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One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
(Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), German physician, founder of homeopathy. Organon of Medicine, sct. 81 (1842, 6th ed., trans. 1983).)
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It was not till the middle of the second dance, when, from some pauses in the movement wherein they all seemed to look up, I fancied I could distinguish an elevation of spirit different from that which is the cause or the effect of simple jollity.—In a word, I thought I beheld Religion mixing in the dance.
(Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ch. "The Grace." Ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967).
On observing French peasants dancing after supper.)
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician. The Mock Turtle's song, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, "The Lobster Quadrille," (1865).)
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Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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hopes dance best on bald men's hair
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood (l. 9). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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All the shad'wy tribes of Mind,
In braided dance their murmurs joined,
(William Collins (1721-1759), British poet. Ode on the Poetical Character (l. 47-48). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British author, mathematician. The Mock Turtle's song, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, "The Lobster Quadrille," (1865).)
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