Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6558

Self-criticism [1]

It is no use being disgusted because there is a best you have not reached yet; every poet should have that feeling of “a miraculous poetic creation existing on a plane” he has not reached, but he should not despair of reaching it, but rather he has to regard present achievement not as something final but as steps towards what he hopes one day to write. That is the true artistic temper.

1 May 1934