The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
MARTHA GRAHAMThe body says what words cannot.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
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You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
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You don’t pick dance. Dance picks you.
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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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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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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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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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
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I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.
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