Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6728

Sentimentality and Clichés [1]

It is all right as it is except the first lines, “ ... so grief-hearted ... strangely lone”, strike at once the romantically sentimental note of more than a hundred years ago which is dead and laughed out of court nowadays. Especially in writing anything about vital love, avoid like the plague anything that descends into the sentimental or, worse, the namby-pamby.

30 May 1932