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

Poetry Writing and Fiction [2]

If a writer devoted part of the day to stories and part to poems, would the two sorts of writing come in each other’s way?

One cannot say what will be the immediate effect. But it is not likely that the poetic consciousness once opened will stop — though it may be suspended if the concentration is strongly to something else.

7 January 1937