Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7336

Sri Aurobindo’s Critical Comments on Poetry Written in the Ashram [4]

If I could be told what exactly to change in order that my recent lines might achieve full success and become “very fine”, I would be thankful.

I have told you once that I have become more subdued in my appreciations of poetry – so “fine” may very well be changed to “very fine”. The poem you wrote was without a flaw positive or negative – to alter it would be to spoil it.

11 October 1934