English Folk Dance

Famous quotes containing the words english, folk and/or dance:

    “We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    “the yonge sonne
    Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
    And smale foweles maken melodye,
    That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
    So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “They dance with reluctance, they are growing civilized; the old men
    persuade them.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)