Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6633

The Poet and the Prophet

Essentially the poet’s value lies in his poetic and not in his prophetic power. If he is a prophet also, the intrinsic worth of his prophecy lies in its own value, his poetic merit does not add to that, only it gives to its expression a power that perhaps it would not have otherwise.

7 November 1934