It is only in harmonious collaboration that effective work can be done.

The important thing is to find the point on which you can all agree—

and after this is firmly established, each one must be ready to yield his personal will

in order to keep intact this point of harmony.

Blessings


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The Mother

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Sri Aurobindo says the following about Keats in The Future Poetry: “Keats is the first entire artist in word and rhythm in English poetry,—not grandiose, classical and derived like Milton, but direct and original in his artistry, he begins a new era.” Writing about sonnets Keats held that he shouldn’t bind the language by dull rhymes, misers as they are of sound and syllable. But his famous On the first looking into Chapman’s Homer has a kind of inspired simplicity and directness which lends another charm to it. This was written in October 1816 and published in the Examiner on 1 December 1816. It so happened that he was in the company of his friend Charles Cowden Clarke, reading together Chapman's translation of Iliad and Odyssey. Next day morning when Clarke visited Keats for the breakfast he was happily surprised to find at the table Chapman’s Homer.

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