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Dance is poetry because its ultimate goal is to express feelings, even if through a rigid technique. Our task is to convey words through movement.

— Carla Fracci

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When Alicia Markova came to dance at La Scala, she must have been 45 years old. The other girls called her the old lady. To me, she was fantastic. Such nobility, such enchanting little feet.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

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