Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Savitri

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [7]

[As typed] Its passive flower of love and doom it gave.

[cf. p. 7]

Good Heavens! how did Gandhi come in there? Passion-flower, sir — passion, not passive.

30 October 1936