Vikram Seth Quotes
born 1952 India
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian poet and author.
Also known as: A Suitable Boy
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
An Equal Music (1999)
In the strict ranks of Gay and Straight
What is my status: Stray? Or Great?
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
An Equal Music (1999)
In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have...oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.
The Golden Gate (1986)
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hands to left or right,
And emptiness above—
Know that you aren’t alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
[T]hink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
A Suitable Boy (1993)
Imagining the flower-pot attacked it
The kitten flung the violets near and far
And yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,
My car was set upon by a parked car.
Ten hostages is terrorism;
A million, and it's strategy.
To ban books is fanaticism;
To threaten in totality
All culture and all civilization,
All humankind and all creation,
This is a task of decorous skill
And needs high statesmanship and will.
The Golden Gate (1986)
Catholic and Episcopalian,
Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist,
Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist,
We are all here; no one is alien
Now radiation's common laws
Impel us into common cause.
The Golden Gate (1986)