Then you will see no “myriad”, Sir, though “many” is peeping like a coward! But I don’t understand why you are so wry over “myriad”. In that case, heaven, spirit, luminous, shadow, dream, etc. have to go and I shall be left with what?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2086
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
April 25, 1938
Then you will see no “myriad”, Sir, though “many” is peeping like a coward! But I don’t understand why you are so wry over “myriad”. In that case, heaven, spirit, luminous, shadow, dream, etc. have to go and I shall be left with what?
“Myriad” is an epithet, not a key-word like heaven, spirit or dream. An epithet recurring in every poem (even if it were luminous!) ends by sounding poor.