Well, sir, your flu has made you fluid and fluent, and the hammering headache has hammered out a fine poem. Wa Allah!Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2207
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
October 9, 1938
Guru, I fear you will find the poem1 suffering from the first signs of flu! There is no harmony at all. It is all because of my “hammering headache”.
Well, sir, your flu has made you fluid and fluent, and the hammering headache has hammered out a fine poem. Wa Allah!
It doesn’t seem to know what it’s talking about.
I don’t see what’s wrong with it. It seems to know what it is talking about; although you may not know it.
1 Fifty Poems of Nirodbaran, p. 98.