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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

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Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

— John Adams

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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

— Martha Gellhorn

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