Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6990

Rabindranath Tagore [3]

Tagore, I think, is substantially right in dubbing his spiritual poems imaginative rather than spiritual.

Well, yes, he mentalises, aestheticises, sentimentalises the things of the spirit – but I can’t say that I have ever found the expression of a concrete spiritual realisation in his poetry – though ideas, emotions, ideal dreamings in plenty. That is something, but –

23 March 1934