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Whatever the other reasons are for the tremendous postwar popularity of the ballet both in Europe and America, be they its colourfulness, its poetry, its vigour, its beauty, and its blending of different arts, there is one more, which is important: its other-worldliness. It answers a spiritual craving that does not know it is spiritual.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 261