Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETHPoetry, 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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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 spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I’m enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative – I’m not talking about poetry here – take years to write, and I am never sure they’ll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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