Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7235

Variations in Inspiration [2]

You wrote that today’s poem is only “good”. Where is the progress?

No writer of poetry can count on keeping the same level of inspiration in all his poems. The results are sometimes good, sometimes better, sometimes at his best. There can be failures also so long as one is not perfectly mature in capacity.

11 July 1936