All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.
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
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
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
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.
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
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…
We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness. - Vijay Seshadri
We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.
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
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
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
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.
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
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, …
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 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…
The sun does what it does because the earth tilts. - Vijay Seshadri
The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.
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