Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETHAll 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.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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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 have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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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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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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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 think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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