Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2215

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 18, 1938

15 – a colossal number! Joking? I am tempted to say like Monodhar – “I beg to differ with you in this respect.”

Not at all; quite serious. If you take the short lyrics and sonnets (not longer poems) of great poets like Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, how many are there of the first class written in a whole lifetime? Thirty or forty perhaps at the outside. And you have written 15 in 6 months.