Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6639

Poetic Genius [2]

For poetry one must have a special inspiration or genius. With literary capacity one can write good verse only.

Genius usually means an inborn power which develops of itself. Talent and capacity are not genius, that can be acquired. But that is the ordinary rule, by Yoga one can manifest what is concealed in the being.

22 September 1934