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The one who tastes, knows. The one who tastes not, knows not. Don't speak of a heavenly beverage; offer it at your banquets and say nothing. Those who like it will ask for more; those who don't aren't fit to drink it. Close the shop of debate and mystery. Open the tea-house of experience.

—Khwaja Yusuf al-Hamadani

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The Key to Dante's Divine Comedy by J. Augustus Knapp for The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall, 1928

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Isolation by Norwood Hodge MacGilvary, c. 1935

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Happy Birthday’", published c. 2017.

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"The Death of Queen Galswintha" by artist Eugène Philastre.

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Ganja & Hess (1973) Directed by Bill Gunn

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Study for ‘Calypso's Grotto’ Francis Danby (1793–1861) Yale Center for British Art

" The artist can, within certain limits, make whatever he likes of his life. In other callings, in medicine for instance or the law, you are free to choose whether you will adopt them or not, but having chosen you are free no longer. You are bound by the rules of your profession; a standard of conduct is imposed on you. The pattern is predetermined. It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own. No wonder the artist is lodestone to many wishes. He alone seems to be able to keep the human right of way, to test and explore the possibilities of life."

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