Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7311

Some Questions of Word-Use [3]

“Revealed her mateless beauty the (or their) true paradise” is not permissible in prose, but it is one of those contracted expressions which are allowed in poetry and it is quite intelligible. The other form “revealed their mateless love as their true paradise” seems to me rather tame and prosaic.

8 October 1934