| In The Flutist, an Orphic piper with a mother-of-pearl face charms fossilized rocks, which rise from the grassy ground to assemble a ziggurat ascending to the ether. |
| We may also take it that he was familiar with all sorts of Orphic and Pythagorean sectaries. |
| The works of the Orphic artist must simultaneously give a pure aesthetic pleasure, a structure which is self-evident, and a sublime meaning, that is, a subject. |
| We usually think of the Orphic myth as a story about the artist's deadly gaze and the power of his art, about love and its fatal moment of madness. |
| These were the Orphic hymns, which were sung by the Lycomed at Athens. |
| Of such a nature, and connected in particular with the improvement of the arts of life, were the Dionysiac and Orphic arts. |
