Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2225
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
November 3, 1938
Guru, this poem1 is so simple (and bare at places?) that I fear it approaches flatness.
Well, sir – well, sir – well, sir! I force myself not to break out into strong and abusive language; but really, really, you must mend your defective sense of poetic values. This is another triumph. You must have had, besides the foiled romantic, a metaphysical poet of the 17th century latent in you who is breaking out now from time to time. Donne himself after having got relieved in the other world of his ruggedness, mannerisms and ingenious intellectualities, might have written this poem.
In English does “journey to God” mean anything?
It means everything.
1 “Quest Fulfilled”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 91.