Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Agnes George de Mille

American Dancer and Choreographer

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

"I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface for fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule."

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."