Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 7277

Poetic Inspiration and Prose-Work

I am at present too much caught in the prose-work. No wonder poetry is impossible. I suppose the prose has to run its course before the poetic inspiration gets a chance to return?

Why the deuce should your poetic inspiration wait for the results of the prose canter? The ground being still cumbered ought to be no obstacle to an aerial flight.

16 March 1935