Martha Graham Quotes About Miracles

Quotes about: Miracles

• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Forgotten Things

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

• The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Thinking, Mirrors

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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