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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
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Imagination
Music
Love
Professionally
Competent

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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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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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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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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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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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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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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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God save us from people who mean well.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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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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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 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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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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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.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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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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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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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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