| Yet how does one distill the Orphic essence from its various and utterly distinctive incarnations? |
| Of such a nature, and connected in particular with the improvement of the arts of life, were the Dionysiac and Orphic arts. |
| Orphic religion, a Hellenistic mystery religion, thought to have been based on the teachings and songs of the legendary Greek musician Orpheus. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| And Orphic purity was mainly, though not entirely, the result of moral discipline. |
