Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7275

Poetry Writing and Fiction [1]

Can I, without losing the force needed for fiction or poetry, carry on both at the same time?

There is no rule for these things. You must see for yourself, for with each person it is different. There is no general or necessary incompatibility between fiction and poetry.

28 March 1936