Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2107

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

May 22, 1938

“A strange intensity glows

Through its wild frame

Sweeping all barriers flows

Its mystery-flame.”

What is this domestic broomstick work on barriers? If you mean, sweeping away, you have to say so.

Guru, I was rather depressed not to find any double lines in yesterday’s poem.

I said it was a fine poem – that is the equivalent of lines.

I have tried to drag the Muse out; has she come out?

She has come out but trailing three cliché tails behind her. Most reprehensible conduct for a self-respecting Muse.

I am caught by a fear that the store is over and nothing new will come.

No fear!