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

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [29]

Across the soul’s unmapped immensitudes. [cf. p. 80]

Whatever you have written, it is not “immensities”.

The word is “immensitudes” as you have written. I take upon myself the right to coin new words. It is not any more fantastic than “infinitudes” to pair “infinity”.

13 November 1936