Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
VIKRAM SETHIn a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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