object:1.2.1.12 - Spiritual Poetry
book class:Letters On Poetry And Art
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject class:Integral Yoga
media class:chapter
28 May 1937
The spiritual vision must never be intellectual, philosophical or abstract, it must always give the sense of something vivid, living and concrete, a thing of vibrant beauty or a thing of power. An abstract spiritual poetry is possible but that is not Amals manner. The poetry of spiritual vision as distinct from that of spiritual thought abounds in images, unavoidably because that is the straight way to avoid abstractness; but these images must be felt as very real and concrete things, otherwise they become like the images used by the philosophic poets, decorative to the thought rather than realities of the inner vision and experience.
28 May 1937
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26 Jan 1937
Spiritual imagery is perfectly free. Occult imagery usually fixes itself to a system of symbols, otherwise it cant be understood even by the initiates. But spiritual imagery is usually simple and clear.
26 January 1937
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