Agnes de Mille Quotes

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLE

Creativity Knowing Living Moment Next
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
AGNES DE MILLE

Bearable Fatigue Unbearable
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
AGNES DE MILLE

Agonizing Aponizing Counrry Forgotten Pining Theatre
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLE

Dancer Modern Sanisterm Portent
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLE

Cracked Down Kissing Learned Simplest
I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLE

Absorbed Completely Respond
What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLE

Experienced Hard Newly Something Unknown Wanted
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
AGNES DE MILLE

Farther Greed Hurried Keep Our Pressing Upbeat
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLE

Everything Idea Intent Jump Rise Wing
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLE

Being Entirely Form Know Next

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