Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 7330
An Epic Line
Do you think the blank verse here [in the poem Agni Jatavedas] has any epical ring?
No – there are sometimes epic or almost epic lines, but the whole or most of it has not the epic ring. There is one epic line
An infinite rapture veiled by infinite pain.
Perhaps the first three lines are near the epic – there may be one or two others.
19 May 1937