{"id":93,"date":"2013-07-13T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:52","slug":"07-stray-thoughts-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03\/07-stray-thoughts-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-07_Stray Thoughts.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nStray Thoughts<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nF<\/font>LOWERS<\/font><\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

and trees are the poetry of
\nnature; the gardener is a romantic poet who has added richness,
\ncomplexity of effect and symmetry to a language otherwise
\ndistinguished merely by facility, by directness and by simplicity
\nof colour and charm.<\/font><\/p>\n

 
\n <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSound is more essential to poetry than sense. Swinburne
\nwho often conveys no meaning to the intellect, yet fills his verse
\nwith lovely and suggestive melodies, can put more poetry into one
\nsuch line than Pope into a hundred couplets of accurate sense
\nand barren music. A noble thought framed in a well-rounded
\nsentence will always charm by virtue of its satisfying completeness, but will never convey that exquisite agony of rapture which
\na line of perfect melody conveys to the sensitive soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe melody of words has this advantage over the melody of
\nmere sounds that it needs only a soul to understand poetry but
\nto comprehend music a technical education as well.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nTo govern life by fixed laws and a pocket-handbook!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nBeware of heavy touches above all in tragedy: comedy
\nheavily stressed becomes the grotesque, which has its value in
\nart; tragedy heavily stressed becomes melodrama, which has
\nno value anywhere.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>*<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOne step beyond the sublime and you are in the grotesque.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nArt holds the mirror up to Nature that Nature may see her
\nown image beside that of Art and realise her own deformity and
\nimperfections.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nIt was Meredith who taught me that the epigram is the soul
\nof style, and Plato who whispered that rhythm is its body, words
\nare the texture of the flesh and sentences the system of hard
\nmatter that gives it consistency: the texture of the flesh may be
\ncoarse or delicate, and as you design so you shall build.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t*<\/p>\n

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\nJust as Socrates was nothing without his daemon, so the
\nartist is helpless if he has not his daemon at his elbow. And who
\nis the artist’s daemon?<\/font>  <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe artistic conscience.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nInspiration means that the papyrus of your imagination is
\nheld to the fire of memory and reveals characters written in
\nIndian ink by unseen compositors.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNOTE: Stray Thoughts –<\/i> Reproduced from notes found in a manuscript belonging to student
\ndays in England, 1890-92.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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