Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7342

Sri Aurobindo’s Critical Comments on Poetry Written in the Ashram [10]

You’ve said that the poem now is “very fine”, but why is it so?

Why is a poem fine? By its power of expression and rhythm, I suppose, and its force of substance and image. As all these are there, I call it a fine poem.

5 December 1936