You said that you would “see” about giving me something new in poetry. Well, it does not seem that you have “seen” yet, does it?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2173
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 28, 1938
Guru, the last stanza took me an hour and yet I fear I couldn’t get an original idea or expression.1
On the contrary, it is eminently successful and well worth the hour spent on it.
You said that you would “see” about giving me something new in poetry. Well, it does not seem that you have “seen” yet, does it?
I simply said that we will see, i.e. how things develop. The idea of these poems is the same as before, but in expression the poetry is becoming more and more authentic, more “seen” than before and that after all is the main thing. The last two stanzas are Al.
1 “Seeds of Vision”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 75.