Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Third Series

Fragment ID: 20977

All poetry is mental or vital or both; sometimes with a psychic tinge; the power from above mind comes in only in rare lines and passages lifting up the mental and vital inspiration. towards its own light and power. To work freely from that hidden inspiration is a thing that has not been done though certain tendencies of modern poetry seem to be an unconscious attempt to prepare for that. But in the mind and vital there ? are many provinces and kingdoms and what you have been writing recently is by no means from. the ordinary mind or vital; its inspiration comes. from a higher or deeper occult or inner source.