Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 3. Practical Guidance for Aspiring Writers
Guidance in Writing Poetry

Sending Inspiration [2]

Please send me some inspiration to complete my Triumph of Dante. What is the best way of receiving it? I’ll be thankful if you’ll teach me how to be able to fill up those gaps.

Good Lord! it is not a thing that can be taught. As for the best way — well, silence of the mind, relative silence if one can’t get the absolute.

6 November 1936