Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20307

I doubt whether I shall have the courage to throw out again the stricken and “too explicit” bird into the cold and storm outside; at most I might change that one line, the first, and make it stronger. I confess I fail to see what is so objectionable in its explicitness; usually, according to my idea, it is only things that are in themselves vague that have to be kept vague. There is plenty of room for the implicit and suggestive, but I do not see the necessity for that where one has to bring home a physical image.

1946