What a disappointment! I thought yesterday’s poem was very fine. It seems it is pretty hard to write exceedingly fine stuff in this kind of poetry.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1853
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
February 15, 1937
What a disappointment! I thought yesterday’s poem was very fine. It seems it is pretty hard to write exceedingly fine stuff in this kind of poetry.
Well, well, I must reserve the adverbs, or I shall have nothing to put in case you “exceed” yourself.