We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
People have forgotten how to tell a story.
I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the day.
For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But it's always been an effective move in our league.
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
