Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

2. Art and Literature

Modes and Varieties of Poetic Creation

It is proposed to include me in an Ashram Anthology of Bengali poems. But won't my work look pale and anaemic beside something like Nishikanta's, all splendour and glow?

No. Besides, there must always be varieties in an anthology which is like a museum or a botanical  collection. So a modestum Nirodicum inside will do no harm even beside flaminga Nishikantica.

24.08.1935