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 [30]

Would you also use “eternitudes”?

Not likely! I would think of the French éternuer and sneeze.

The body and the life no more were {{0}}all.[[This line does not form part of the final version of Savitri. — Ed.]]

Don’t care to [change the line] — it says precisely what I want to convey and I don’t see how I can say it otherwise without diminishing or exaggerating the significance.

14 November 1936