Home » Quote » Paul Valéry » „Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.“ „Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.“ — Paul Valéry Tags:Dance Related quotes „Mark spoke like a poem and walked like a dance.“ — Cassandra Clare „Dancing is very like poetry. It's like poetic lyricism, sometimes, it's like the rawness of dramatic poetry, it's like the terror — or it can be like a terrible revelation of meaning. Because when you light on a word it strikes you to your heart.“ — Martha Graham „He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche