Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 2. The Poetry of the Spirit
Psychic, Mystic and Spiritual Poetry

Psychic and Overhead Inspiration [3]

I don’t suppose the emergence of the psychic would interfere at all with the inspiration from above. It would be more likely to help it by making the connection with these planes more direct and conscious.... The direct psychic touch is not frequent in poetry. It breaks in sometimes — more often there is only a tinge here and there.

20 October 1936