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Is the artist's and the mystic's experience identical? Sometimes it is but more often not at all. The times when the artist, the writer, the musician, or the poet touches the same level as the mystic depend partly upon his ability to forget himself in devotion to his creation, partly on other things.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 9