Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2214
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
October 17, 1938
[After making the corrections in my poem:1]
Ahem! What do you say to that? It seems to me that between us we have produced something remarkable.
After being poised, how can anything travel, and with eagle-wings at that?
But that is what the eagles do. They beat their wings to give themselves an impulsion and then sail for some time with wide wings poised on the air.
I find that I have written about 186 poems from March to August, of which only 15 are “exceedingly fine”.
15 poems exceedingly fine in 6 months! It is a colossal number!
But in any case, compared to last year’s poems, there has been a very satisfactory progress, I think. What do you say?
Certainly.
1 “O Light Inviolable”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 97.