The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Plays today are made as if in a mold, and if they are not made according to this mold, then it is not considered to be good play-writing. But an ideal is something which cannot be confined to a mold, which cannot be limited to a certain design or a certain form. The higher the ideal is the larger the scope it requires, and it cannot be accommodated in a small design or form. Not only drama, but also music and poetry often suffer because of a fixed mold that is forced upon the composer or the poet. The production of art has become material. Whether it is poetry, music, or drama, it can only be true art, really inspired art, when it is made just as it comes, and when it is also completed in that


 
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