Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6966

Dante [2]

As regards Beatrice, I have never thought about the matter. Outwardly, it was an idealisation, probably due to a psychic connection of the past which could not fulfil itself in that life. But I do not see how his conception of her gives him his excellence – it was only one element in a very powerful and complex nature.

10 July 1932