Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 1. The Sources of Poetry
Sources of Inspiration

Sources of Inspiration and Variety [2]

Different sources of inspiration may express differently the same thing. I can’t say what plane is imaged in the poem [submitted by the correspondent]. Planes are big regions of being with all sorts of things in them.

17 October 1936