atrophy quotes

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

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  The Face of War, introduction.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs toofar from the dance; that poetry beginsto atrophy when it getstoo far from music . . .

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  TheABC of Reading,'Warning'.

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