God save us from people who mean well.
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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.
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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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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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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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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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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I’m interested in.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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.
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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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