Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 959

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 31, 1943

I send you Bharati’s post card. Her book The Well of the People have you read it?

Yes.

She writes very good English I thought but I wrote to her declining to say more as I was not a modern. Qu’en dites-vous?(I mean about her book, not about my ancientness)

Very good; her language is excellent. I don’t want to say anything, because when I cannot positively encourage a young and new writer, I prefer to remain mum. It is the symbolic structure of the poem that seems to me rather loose and formless, the poetry lacks grip and bite. But I suppose she will get over these defects in time. Each writer must be left to develop in his own way.

By the way, my drama is getting on fine, really fine, you know! Would you believe it – I believe it is really going o make a hit – unless I am very much mistaken! Did you send force, I mean, consciously? Not that I wish you didn’t so that I could call it my own handiwork.

Certainly.