Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth CBEis an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1952
CountryIndia
reputation obsessed
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
matter way ears
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.
smooth rough knows
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
green red ink
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
thinking persons
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
love-is able one-you-love
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
not-sure whole-life whole
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
stars journey doors
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.
love sleep night
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.
thinking wells ifs
I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
inspiration mind
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
blessed grieving soul
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.
faith christianity backbone
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
differences lows let-me-go
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.