Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 227

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 1932 (?)

The two sonnets are very good – especially the first is perfection as a sonnet in the rounded unity of its thought-construction and development. As to the moral, there is no moral; but a sonnet is either a thought-sequence or a sight-sequence or both and it always mounts or should mount to a strong conclusion expressing the result or finale of all that has gone before. But that cannot be called drawing a moral.

Yes, it is a profound truth that you have expressed here – the supreme difficulty which stands in the way of the vital in human nature opening to its own longed-for privilege of full joy and force and Ananda.

Harin’s poetry, I find, is always beautiful and striking in its images, but sometimes ... [incomplete].