Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.
Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
Dancing is a sweat job.
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to.
The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan. ".
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.
But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. . . of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here. . . It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.