Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7262

Writing and Self-criticism [3]

I have scratched the whole poem out of existence! And yet when I completed it, I was so happy thinking it was something great! Fool!

Every poet is such a fool. His work is done in an exalting excitement of the vital mind – judgment and criticism can only come when he has cooled down.

6 April 1937