Aug 3, 2009 | ∞
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You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
Merce Cunningham, choreographer
A fixture of my Monday yoga class is that our teacher reads a quote. “This is how I feel about yoga,” she said in response to this week’s quote.” “This is how I feel about learning,” I thought. (See this video and transcript of Smith College’s 2008 commencement speech by Margaret Edson)
