Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Poetic Inspiration and Yoga

While X and others receive your Force for poetry, why am I such a granite block? Y also receives very well.

Ah, you think so! My dear Sir, I have to do boring operations like digging an artesian well before I can get a few poems out of him. And afterwards it is one long wail. “All gone, all gone! I am damned, doomed, dead, deteriorated, degenerated” for a whole day period. Sir, Y is twice the Man of Sorrows you are.

18.09.1936