Poetic Aside

Nathan Whiting said he has read thousands of poetry books, but he has never read anybody who writes in the English language in such a natural way as I do.

I had told in that I liked his poetry book, so he told me that.

I said, "Nathan!"

He said, "Yes, I mean it!"

-22 June 1983




[Source: "Poetic Aside" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]