Ruth St Denis Quotes

“The amazing thing, when she came to do the long-postponed Egypta in 1910, after she had won international fame, was that she did indeed do a work which was not only a day in the life of Egypt but the life of the nation itself, starting with dawn, with prayer, with the river Nile (she was the river itself), with the labors of the working people of Egypt, with temple ceremonies, with entertainment of the pharaoh, and with the final judgment when, before the god Osiris, the heart of Egypt is weighed against the feather of truth.”
― Walter Terry

“With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.”
― Walter Terry

“Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.”
― Walter Terry, Ted Shawn, father of American dance: A biography