Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6872

On the Inspiration and Writing of the Poem [8]

It will take you exactly eight minutes to read the third section and two more minutes are enough for you to decide in the matter of alternatives.

You have queer ideas about poetic time! Sometimes it takes me months to get the right form of a line.

19 November 1936