In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETHYou have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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God save us from people who mean well.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally – your ears will know.
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It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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