The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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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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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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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 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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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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Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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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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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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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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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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