Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 139
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
July 7, 1931
I return Pratibha’s1 poems. Yes, they are indeed full of promise, there is a sweetness in the rhythm and a sincerity of poetic style which, if developed, may come to something of very real value.
I shall comment on your translations (Baudelaire and Shelley) tomorrow; as it is already 2.30 a.m., I have no time just now2.
I hope the undesirable feeling of which you speak will have disappeared by tomorrow – you ought certainly not to give it a full week’s life! If the cause is only what you state, there is no rational or irrational reason why it should last so long.
1 Wife of famous Bengali writer Sri Buddhadev Basu, herself an eminent writer of Bengali novels.
2 Sri Aurobindo spent most of his nights answering the disciple’s letters.