Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7221

Inspiration and Understanding [2]

The poet herself says that, as far as she can tell, the sestet has no relationship to the previous lines.

What does that matter? Is she the intellectual creator of these poems or is she the medium of their transmission? If the latter it does not matter a penny damn that she does not intellectually understand her poem – provided she transmits it correctly.

7 December 1936