It would certainly be unpoetic.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1829
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
January 20, 1937
You have relieved us by your answer. But I thought you have only one Self – the Overmental or the Supramental.
Why do you suppose me to be so poor in selves? When everybody has several, I must content myself with one?
Who is this “I” who sends the Force – which aspect, I mean?
“I” is a pronoun only = the Multifarious One.
It would be a pity to stop writing poetry till the 22nd century and have to wait for people to understand it. That would be unyogic, and being untrue to the poet also.
From one standpoint; from the other the prudence of postponing for the fitting century might be classed under যোগঃ কর্মসু কৌশলম্1 It would certainly be unpoetic.
What’s your opinion about that bizarre poem – “Good” or “Grand”? what is the word? I can’t flatter myself by taking it to be “grand”, nor can my poetic being take it for “good” without pain.
It was good. I forgot that you did not like “good” poetry, only “fine” and even “very fine”. Let us then promote it to “fine”, but stop short of “grand”.
I can just make out the curve of the r. Please solve the mystery and soothe me a little.
You are wrong; the “r” curve was conspicuous by its absence. Perhaps I was trying to write in a certain kind of modern English style “grood” = “really good”.
I wrote a beautiful poem in the early morning, but I can’t show it to you for it was done in sleep and I have lost it. Pity, isn’t it?
Great pity.
1 yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam: Yoga is skill in works. (Gita, II.50)