Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 3. Poetic Technique
Substance, Style, Diction

Conceit [1]

When an image comes out from the mind not properly transmuted in the inner vision or delivered by the alchemy of language, it betrays itself as coin of the fancy or the contriving intellect and is then called a {{0}}conceit.[[This sentence was extracted for separate publication from a letter given in full on pages 505 – 06. — Ed.]]

26 August 1931