Quote by Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. -

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. – Ezra Pound

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Age
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Dancing
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The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. – Agnes de Mille

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Dancing

Dancers are the messengers of the gods. – Martha Graham

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Dancing

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. – George Bernard Shaw

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Dancing

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. – Martha Graham

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Dancing

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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I think its easiest to teach by example. My dad didnt tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but Ive learned you cant come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids. – Chris ODonnell

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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. – Glenn Beck

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