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For the spiritual poet, as for the spiritual man, it is silence and not worldly experience that can communicate wisdom. And this wisdom can only ever be partially conveyed in the forms of language. T.S.Eliot affirms that

"wisdom is greater than any sum of wise sayings ... The wisdom of a human being resides as much in silence as in speech ... Wisdom is a native gift of intuition, ripened and given application by experience, for understanding the nature of things, certainly of living things, most certainly of the human heart. In some men it may appear fitfully and occasionally, or once in a lifetime, in the rapture of a single experience beatific or awful: in a man like Goethe it appears to have been constant, steady and serene. But the wise man, in contrast to the mere worldly wise on the one hand and the man of some intense vision of the heights or the depths on the other, is one whose wisdom springs from spiritual sources ... "[19]

Because all creativity, as Sri Chinmoy understands it, posits selfdiscovery as its ultimate goal, it offers man a means of drawing nearer to this inner spiritual source. In a song from the volume Supreme, I Sing Only for You, also published in 1974, Sri Chinmoy describes this process:

0 my poem you are the lotus
Of my heart.
You bring into my heart
Nectar-light from Heaven.
When my life flows
With the river of sorrow with its countless
    waves,
May your magic touch
Hide me in the waters of liberation-sea.[20]