Paraphrase of "how can we know the dancer from the dance?"

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hi: I need your help. can someone paraphrase the following sentence please?"How can we know the dancer from the dance? "

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Can we come to an understanding of the character of a dancer by the way he expresses and interprets the dance?

CalifJim · Answer

How is it possible to separate the agent of an action from the action he performs?
Context?
Without context, it seems to be saying something vaguely philosophical in a highly metaphoric way.
It almost sounds like something Spinoza might have said. It seems somewhat related to pantheism. *** is Nature. Nature is ***.
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Well, that was my cold take on it as an isolated sentence. It turns out that it's the last line of a poem (Among School Children) by Yeats. If an interpretation of the poem is what you want, you can find a great deal of this sort of literary criticism on the internet.

CJ

Clive · Answer

Hi guys,
As a dancer, I can tell you that you can often learn a lot about a person's character from the way they dance.

Best wishes, Clive

CalifJim · Answer

What if you can't dance?  Does it mean you have no character?  <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' alt='Emotion: big smile'/>

Clive · Answer

The fact they can't dance tells you something about their character, too.

Clive

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