A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
– Lincoln Kirstein
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
– Lincoln Kirstein
He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life.
– Lincoln Kirstein
I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.
– Lincoln Kirstein
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
– Lincoln Kirstein
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.