Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6630

The Poet, the Yogi and the Rishi [2]

You seem almost to say that the poet is necessarily not a seer or Rishi. But if the mere poet is not a Rishi, the Rishi after all can be a poet – the greater can contain the less, even though the less is not the greater.

11 November 1934