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

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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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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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – William James

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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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