Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7345

Sri Aurobindo’s Comments on Poetry Written Outside the Ashram [2]

I hope Dilip is not sending Kshitish Sen my adverse criticism of his translation – it was not meant for him. I do not like to discourage people uselessly,– that is to say, where I cannot show them how to do better; where I cannot encourage, I prefer to say nothing. For the rest (omitting the sentence about rhetorical flatness) he can do as he likes.

19 November 1930