There are many single lines carrying with them concentrated expression of the poetic vision, and they sink into our mind and go on echoing and re-echoing with wealth of suggestions in our consciousness.

1. Nature's vision climbs beyond her acts.

2. Truth is wider, greater than her forms.

3. Lulled by Time's beats eternity sleeps in us.

4. Our minds are starters in the race to God.

5. None lived for himself alone.

6. Each lived for God in him, and God in all.

7. The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown.

8. All knowledge was left a questioning ignorance.

9. She has lured the Eternal into the arms of Time.

10. He saw a world that is from a world to be.

Here are three extracts from Sri Aurobindo’s The Future Poetry first published as a series of articles in the Arya from 1917 to 1920. This series was brought out in the form of a book in 1953. AB Purani quotes these in his present chapter Savitri as Poetic Expression forming a part of his book Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: an Approach and a Study, first published in 1952 by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust Pondicherry.

…this new vision will not be as in the old times something hieratically remote, mystic, inward, shielded from the profane, but rather a sight which will endeavour to draw these godheads again to close and familiar intimacy with our earth and embody them not only in the heart of religion and philosophy, not only in the higher flights of thought and art, but also, as far as may be, in the common life and action of man. For in the old days these things were mysteries, which man left to the few, to the initiates and by so leaving them lost sight of them in the end, but the endeavour of this new mind is to reveal, to divulge, and to bring near to our comprehension all mysteries.

A poetry of this kind need not at all be something high and remote or beautifully delicately tangible, or not that alone, but will make too the highest things near, close and visible, will sing greatly and beautifully of all that we are from outward body to very God and self, of die finite and the infinite, the transient and the Eternal, but with a new reconciling and fusing vision that will make them other to us than they have been when yet tile same. If it wings to the heights, it will not leave the earth unseen below it, but also will not confine itself to earth, but And too other realities and other powers of men and take all the planes of existence for the empire....And then the attempt itself would be a rejuvenating elixir and put the poetic spirit once more in the shining forefront of the powers and guides of the ever progressing soul of humanity. There it will lead in the journey like the Vedic Agni, the fiery giver of the word, the youth, the seer, the beloved and im- mortal' guest, with his honied tongue of ecstasy, the truth-conscious—Rit-Cit, the truth-finder-Ritava,—born as a flame from earth and yet the heavenly messenger of the Immortals.

The voice of the poet will reveal to us by the inspired rhythmic word the God who is the Self of all things and beings, the Life of the Universe, the Divinity in man, and he will express all the emotion and delight of the endeavour of the human soul, to discover the touch and joy of that Divinity within him in whom he feels the mighty founts of his own being and life and effort and his fullness and unity with all cosmic experience and with Nature and with all creatures.