Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Inspiration and Technique
You do not need at all to afflict your inspiration by studying metrical technique – you have all the technique you need, within you. I have never studied prosody myself – in English, at least,– what I know I know by reading and writing and following my ear and using my intelligence. If one is interested in the technical study of prosody for its own sake, that is another matter – but it is not at all indispensable.
28 April 1934