Inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, 
but the full glory
of the divine Light.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 217
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
February 27, 1932
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It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns – and it is so because it is into the deep Inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, but the full glory of the divine Light.
I can take no stock in your friend’s theories – at that rate half the world’s poetry would have to disappear. And what is meant by philosophy – there is none in your poem, there is only vision and emotion of spiritual experience, which is a different thing altogether. Truth and thought and light, cast into forms of beauty cannot be banished in that cavalier way. Music and art and poetry have striven from the beginning to express the vision of the deepest and greatest things and not the things of the surface only, and it will be so as long as there are poetry and art and music
Three-three are all right as an element, but why impose them to the exclusion of less complete but delicate sound-returns. Such rules are too absolute.
1 SABCL, volume 22: deepest
2 SABCL, volume 22: play
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