All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

The quotation distills Martha Graham’s modern-dance ethos into an ethic of attention: the dancer (and, by extension, any person) only truly possesses the present instant of action. “Moment in movement” suggests that meaning is not abstract or deferred but embodied—made real through disciplined, fully inhabited motion. The admonition not to let the moment pass “unnoticed and unused” frames time as a creative responsibility: vitality comes from committing oneself to the immediate task with clarity, risk, and presence. Read beyond dance, it aligns with a broader modernist insistence on lived experience over rehearsal for some future perfection.