“The dance of the soul!”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “Did I live the spring I’d sought?It’s true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day to slumber at my feet.Yet days aren’t lulled by lyric song,like morning birds they pass along,o’er crests of trees, to none belong;o’er crests of trees of drying dew,their larking flight, my hands, eschewThus I’ll say it once and true…From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.”— Roman Payne “A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoana “Life is a sorrow, without a song.”— Lailah Gifty Akita