Poets know their classics.

Study the Future Poetry & Savitri.

A Yogi, accomplished mystic, Guru (a Sanskrit word meaning "Jupiter" and "remover of ignorance"), political activist, journalist, and philosopher, SRI AUROBINDO belongs to the long tradition of polymath poets. He is the author of "Savitri," an epic poem of 24,000 verses that recounts the soul's journey from humanhood to divinity and back. Additionally, he was a ferocious literary critic.

In The Future Poetry, a monstration on the essence of poetry, he wrote:

"To the ordinary mind, judging poetry without really entering into it, it looks as if it were nothing more than an aesthetic pleasure of the imagination, the intellect and the ear, a sort of elevated pastime. (...) Pleasure, certainly, we expect from poetry as from all art; but the external sensible and even the inner imaginative pleasure are only first elements. For these must not only be refined in order to meet the highest requirements of the intelligence, the imagination and the ear; but afterwards they have to be still farther heightened and in their nature raised beyond even their own noblest levels, so that they may become the support for something greater beyond them; otherwise they cannot lead to the height on which lives the Mantra." 

The Master's voice, once audible, now falls silent;

Yet his immortal work endures:

Happy Birthday, divine Father of poets!