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.
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be f… - Vikram Seth
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be f…
- Vikram Seth
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate. - Vikram Seth
Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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 i… - Vikram Seth
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 i…
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go. - Vikram Seth
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
Put your backbone where your wishbone is. - Vikram Seth
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here. - Vikram Seth
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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 shar… - Vikram Seth
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 shar…
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, poe… - Vikram Seth
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, poe…
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else. - Vikram Seth
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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