Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6764

Writing and Rewriting [6]

After so much trouble and pain, yesterday’s poem was maimed! What a capricious Goddess is the Muse! But how partial to you!

Not at all. I have to labour much more than you, except for sonnets which come easily and short lyrics which need only a single revision. But for the rest I have to rewrite 20 or 30 times. Moreover I write only at long intervals.

3 October 1938