Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2076

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 9, 1938

I cherished a wish to flourish as a story-writer long before the English and Bengali Muse sat on me. Now English poetry has caught me and Bengali poetry has gone to sleep. It seems my English poems are much better and deeper than the Bengali ones... Should I try my hand at story-writing?

Your Bengali poems seem to me to be very good, though less vividly original than the English, except at times. Don’t know anything about your stories. Why not keep to poetry at present, writing English usually and Bengali when you can?