Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Poetic Inspiration and Yoga

In one letter you spoke of fictitious stresses. What is meant by them? Can you not illustrate them in a poem? I am enclosing a carte blanche for the purpose.

I meant simply stresses which are conventionally supposed to be there for the sake of the metre... What are you dreaming of, Sir? A poem as an illustration of my bit of prosodic grammar? Inspiration would run away to Pelion and never return if I did such a shocking thing. I am keeping your carte blanche, but the odds are that it may be fitted to quite another purpose.

25.04.1936