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.

- Vijay Seshadri

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. T…

- Vijay Seshadri

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

- Vijay Seshadri

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

- Vijay Seshadri

Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, …

- Vijay Seshadri

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

- Vijay Seshadri

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

- Vijay Seshadri

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can i…

- Vijay Seshadri

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, …

- Vijay Seshadri