Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6914

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [30]

Would you also use “eternitudes”?

Not likely! I would think of the French éternuer and sneeze.

The body and the life no more were all.¹

Don’t care to [change the line] – it says precisely what I want to convey and I don’t see how I can say it otherwise without diminishing or exaggerating the significance.

14 November 1936

¹ This line does not form part of the final version of Savitri. – Ed.

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