Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6868

On the Inspiration and Writing of the Poem [4]

In Savitri there is no attempt – as in the poetry of us lesser fry – to make things specially striking or strange or new, but a simple largeness of gesture which most naturally makes one surprising revelation after another of beauty and power.

Well, it is the difference of receiving from above and living in the ambience of the Above – whatever comes receives the breadth of largeness which belongs to that plane.

26 October 1936