Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 1. The Sources of Poetry
Examples of Overhead Poetry

Evaluations of 1932 – 1935 [4]

What about these lines of Vaughan’s — are they from the illumined mind?

1) But felt through all this fleshly dress

Bright shoots of everlastingness ...

2) I saw Eternity the other night

Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,

All calm, as it was bright ...

This Ring the Bridegroom did for none provide

But for his Bride.

Yes, for the first two. In (1) there is something from the Intuition also and in (2) from the Overmind.

21 March 1935