It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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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You get your inspiration – suggestions – wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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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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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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The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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 think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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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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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.
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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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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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