at my alterations and see how finely easy it was all the time! Wa Allah! It seems to me at the moment one of the finest poems we have yet written. Praise be!Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2230
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
November 8, 1938
[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]
“Beyond the flickering lamps of thought our mind
Soars like an eagle from height to greater height...”
An eagle flying beyond lamps! No, sir!
Guru, ah, what a difficulty I had in writing this poem1! And yet it is not satisfactory!
I am afraid not. As it stands it is a struggling failure. Now just look at my alterations and see how finely easy it was all the time! Wa Allah! It seems to me at the moment one of the finest poems we have yet written. Praise be!
Guru, you seem to be in a mood of swallowing all the Bengali poems – Dilip’s and NK’s. Mine too the same fa te? Please don’t swallow it, je vous prie.
Actually I had Dilip ready last night, but was too lazy to fish out your thing and put him inside you. Here he is now.
Have you any honey or shall we get it from the bazaar?
[Mother:] I have some. Shall send after a day or two.
1 Fifty Poems of Nirodbaran, p. 110.