Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7276

Poetry Writing and Fiction [2]

If a writer devoted part of the day to stories and part to poems, would the two sorts of writing come in each other’s way?

One cannot say what will be the immediate effect. But it is not likely that the poetic consciousness once opened will stop – though it may be suspended if the concentration is strongly to something else.

7 January 1937