Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Of course, Nishikanta has turned it into poetry and very good poetry; but the clear thought of Lawrence has disappeared and its development is not traceable any longer. The main point of Lawrence is that the metaphysics or philosophy on which the art of an age is built has its curve of developing vision followed by its curve of decline and we are an age of decline with a dead empty metaphysics producing lifeless art and then old values have all to be broken in order that a new metaphysics and a new art founded on a new vision may come. This has not been brought out in a clear and balanced way; we only catch glimpses of it in a rather confused thought sequence.