tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144957.post113823061228266370..comments2023-10-31T09:37:59.862-07:00Comments on Rocket Kid Writing: Neglected poetsRachel Dacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754712503067644226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144957.post-1138490704796629202006-01-28T15:25:00.000-08:002006-01-28T15:25:00.000-08:00I didn't know the Institute of Integral Studies wa...I didn't know the Institute of Integral Studies was founded by Aurobindo followers, but am happy to learn that. Yes, I am a tremendous fan of Aurobindo and the Mother. And I have read Aurobindo's book The Future Poetry so often it opens to the same places. <BR/><BR/>I especially like his thoughts on the aim of poetry:<BR/><BR/>"Its function is not to teach truth of any particular kind, not indeed to teach at all, nor to pursue knowledge nor to serve any religious or ethical aim, but to embody beauty in the word and give delight. But at the same time it is at any rate part of its highest function to serve the spirit and to illumine and lead through beauty and build by a high informing and revealing delight the soul of man. And its field is all soul experience, it sappeal is to the aesthetic response of the soul to all that touches it in self or world;"<BR/><BR/>I'll stop typing there. It goes on inspiringly, as all of his work does. Once I dive in, it's hard to stop.<BR/><BR/>Do you still read Savitri?Rachel Dacushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15754712503067644226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144957.post-1138475443436731822006-01-28T11:10:00.000-08:002006-01-28T11:10:00.000-08:00I didn't realize you were an Aurobindo fan. I work...I didn't realize you were an Aurobindo fan. I worked at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the early 1980s, a grad school in SF founded by Aurobindo followers.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923noreply@blogger.com