Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 3. Poetic Technique
Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style

Grades of Perfection and Planes of Inspiration [1]

Is there any coordination between the differences of style and the different planes of inspiration?

I don’t think so — unless one can say that the effective style comes from the higher mind, the illumined from the illumined mind, the inspired from the plane of intuition. But I don’t know whether that would stand at all times — especially when each style reaches its inevitable power.

23 September 1934