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
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.
humorous thinking stories
Poetry, 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.
fate too-late late
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
thinking tree rooted
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
thinking important matter
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.
men games winner
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
hate book long
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.
world nostalgia sometimes
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
authors equally people print trees words
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.