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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

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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Ezra Pound
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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Music
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Ezra Pound
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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. – Mata Hari

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I could believe only in a God who would know how to dance. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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