My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
MARTHA GRAHAMI get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
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No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
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The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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We are all of us, unique – each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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