Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20327

That [“to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies”] might be all right for mental poetry – it won’t do for what I am trying to create – in that, one word won’t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. “Gleam” and “glow” are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.

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