Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6638

Poetic Genius [1]

Poetic genius – without which there cannot be any originality – is inborn, but it takes time to come out – the first work even of great poets is often unoriginal. That is in ordinary life. In Yoga poetic originality can come by an opening from within, even if it was not there before in such a way as to be available in this life.

22 March 1934