Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 877

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

December 1936

Very glad to know of the new inspiration and endeavour.

I am in possession of Nishikanta’s – a whopper! It will take me some time to negotiate it. At present I can see a remarkable flow of language and rhythm, but more can only be said after reading the whole. It looks as if the temptation of your new metre, once mastered, would be that you can go on for ever in it. As Bernard Shaw said of Moore’s Brook Kerith and its perfect smooth style, “There is no reason why Moore should not go on for another 40,000 pages of this book.”