Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Savitri

On the Composition of the Poem. Letters of 1938 [2]

I have been kept too occupied with other things to make much headway with the poem — except that I have spoiled your beautiful neat copy of the “Worlds” under the oestrus of the restless urge for more and more perfection; but we are here for World-improvement, so I hope that is excusable.

12 March 1938