Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6763

Writing and Rewriting [5]

A great bother and an uninteresting business, this chiselling, I find. But perhaps it is very pleasant to you, as you cast and recast ad infinitum, we hear, poetry or prose.

Poetry only, not prose. And in poetry only one poem, Savitri. My smaller poems are written off at once and if any changes are to be made, it is done the same day or the next day and very rapidly done.

9 May 1937