Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 6577

Poetry of the Illumined Mind and of the Intuition

The poetry of the illumined mind is usually full of a play of lights and colours, brilliant and striking in phrase, for illumination makes the Truth vivid – it acts usually by a luminous rush. The poetry of the Intuition may have play of colour and bright lights, but it does not depend on them – it may be quite bare; it tells by a sort of close intimacy with the Truth, an inward expression of it. The illumined mind sometimes gets rid of its trappings, but even then it always keeps a sort of lustrousness of robe which is its characteristic.

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