Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2096

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 8, 1938

“My soul keeps its wide calm

Amidst the surge...”

For heaven’s sake don’t bring calm in at the end of a line. One has to rhyme with balm, palm or psalm, and to bring any of these in without an obvious effort of manufacture is a Herculean feat. Of course if you slam in an Imam or warm up to an alarm, it becomes easier but at the cost of an uneasy conscience.