Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
Inspiration, Effort, Development

Exceeding Past Formulas

I have crossed out “turned Rishi” [in an essay called “Sri Aurobindo — the Poet”], because that suggests an old formula of the past, and the future poet should exceed all past formulas.

5 February 1931