Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7938

mother tongues – Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil – and not try English?

A: All very well for those who can write in some language of India and don’t know English intimately. But what of those who think and write naturally in English? Why didn’t Yeats write in Gaelic?

17-9-1936