Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Third Series

Fragment ID: 21091

Blake stands out among the mystic poets of Europe. His occasional obscurity,– he is more often in his best poems lucid and crystal clear,– is due to his writing of things that are not familiar to the physical mind and writing them with fidelity instead of accomodating them to the latter.... In reading such writing the inner being has to feel first, then. only the mind can catch what is behind.