Quotes from Vijay Seshadri

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

Art seems to be the only place we can liberate our many selves.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.