experience – if it is an experience – be expressed in a more subdued way? Have you really heard the «apsara sangeet», in the lyre of the wind?”Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1935
Letter ID: 1406
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 27, 1935
About yesterday’s poem, Nishikanta says: “Couldn’t your experience – if it is an experience – be expressed in a more subdued way? Have you really heard the «apsara sangeet», in the lyre of the wind?”
It does not seem to me that so much matter of factness can be demanded in poetry. I was not aware of any excessive uchchwas1 when I read it.
G has a disease of which the exact diagnosis you want to know, can be made only by a microscopic examination. He gives a different story altogether, what shall we do?
Can you not say something like this, that you have to make the analysis (or whatever it is called) in order to be sure of your treatment?
1 Emotional exuberance.