“Dancing is very like poetry. It's like poetic lyricism, sometimes, it's like the rawness of dramatic poetry, it's like the terror — or it can be like a terrible revelation of meaning. Because when you light on a word it strikes you to your heart.”

— Martha Graham

New York Times interview (1985)

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American dancer and choreographer 1894–1991

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