Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20303
All in her pointed to a nobler kind.1
It is a “connecting” line which prepares for what follows. It is sometimes good technique, as I think, to intersperse lines like that (provided they do not fall below standard), so as to give the intellect the foothold of a clear unadorned statement of the gist of what is coming, before taking a higher flight. This is of course a technique for long poems and long descriptions, not for shorter things or lyrical writing.
1936
1 P. 14