Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 6634

The Poet and the Verse Writer [1]

No poet feels his poetry as a “normal phenomenon” – he feels it as an inspiration – of course anybody could “make” poetry by learning the rules of prosody and a little practice. In fact many people write verse, but the poets are few. Who are the ordinary poets? There is no such thing as an ordinary poet.

30 June 1936