Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 3

Letter ID: 889

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

January 4, 1937

(How we laughed at your rejoinder! God bless you!)

Here’s a poem – a poem! I felt like a hero while writing it and copying it. Its fire. and glow almost made me believe I meant it all. But doubtless it is imagination catching fire, what? Still see – just see: all these heavy thoughts sublimated into a curious radiance through rhythm and fire and austerity – isn’t it? I have been reading Andre Maurois’s famous Ariel (Shelley’s life) and his idealism stirred me deeply – fascinating. That may explain this maybe? Anyhow I am delighted our language can express so much thought-stuff, with so much resilience and. subtlety. I trust you will go on shedding your austere force: I want – I love – to write some more in this new vein. But I am feeling so unmusical Guru, que faire? Do help. I must be in full training now, you see – and poetical delectation won’t give me that training, will it?

Yes, it is a poem full of energized richness of expression.

No, certainly, poetical flow, however delectable will not put you into musical training. Don’t know why you are so stuck up unless that part is lying fallow, but the moment is inopportune. Let us see if a little rain of heaven can’t make it sprout.