This set me to checking where Maurois wrote this.
It appears to have been in a collection published in 1935 called Magiciens
et Logiciens (or, rather less promisingly in English, Prophets and Poets).
However I don't have a copy to confirm this.
The phrase doesn't appear to be in Lancelyn Green's Rudyard Kipling: The
Critical Heritage, which reprints Maurois' address to 'an audience of over
150' [!] at the Kipling Society in April 1934.
It also reminds us that Maurois (a pseudonym for Emile Herzog) was a Vice
President of the Kipling Society.
best
Andrew
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From: "Mary Hamer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:49 PM
Subject: who said this?
> Can anyone help?
>
> I read somewhere the view that RK's work had such power because 'he had
> always remained in contact with the deepest levels of the human spirit',
> or words to that effect.
>
> I seem to remember that it was Andre Chevrillon - does it ring any bells?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mary Hamer
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