Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

June 22, 1937

However or from wheresoever it came, the only thing to do with a depression is to throw it out.

It seemed to me that your poems showed a genuine and increasing poetic faculty – only the last one, though very well written is less inspired. What you have to see is that you come into touch with a genuine original source of inspiration when you write. Speed or frequency of writing are immaterial.