Famous Quotes / Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein: "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."
| Ballets | Bonsai | Carefully | Collection |
| Conservatory | Give | Grafting | Imperial |
| Maintained | Palace | Patrimony | Preserved |
| Rebirth | Refreshed | Repertory | Replaced |
| Seedlings | Tended | Tokyos | Yearold |