Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 6833
On the Composition of the Poem. Letters of 1931 – 1936 [1]
You once quoted to me two lines written by yourself:
Piercing the limitless unknowable,
Breaking the vacancy and voiceless peace.
Where do they occur? They produce such a wonderful impression of a slow, majestic widening out into infinity.
The lines I quoted from myself are not in any published poem, but in the unfinished first book of “Savitri, A Legend and a Symbol” which was in intention a sort of symbolic epic of the aim of supramental Yoga! I may send it to you for typing when I have completed it; but in view of my abundant absence of leisure, the completion seems still to lurk in the mists of the far-off future.
15 September 1931