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Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
Landscape
Dance
Soul
Men

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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
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The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
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Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.
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