Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6717

Conceit [1]

When an image comes out from the mind not properly transmuted in the inner vision or delivered by the alchemy of language, it betrays itself as coin of the fancy or the contriving intellect and is then called a conceit.¹

26 August 1931

¹ This sentence was extracted for separate publication from a letter given in full on pages 505 – 06. – Ed.

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