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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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Trust
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Dancing
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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence

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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. – George Balanchine

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Dancing

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. – Shanna LaFleur

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Dancing

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. – John Dryden

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Dancing

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