You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude. — Vijay Seshadri Multitudes Copy Share Image
You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself… — Vijay Seshadri Kind Copy Share Image
Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the… — Vijay Seshadri Aspect Copy Share Image
Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language.… — Vijay Seshadri Certain Copy Share Image
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world.… — Vijay Seshadri Citizens Copy Share Image
These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild. — Vijay Seshadri Multiple Copy Share Image
Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an… — Vijay Seshadri Identity Copy Share Image
When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically.… — Vijay Seshadri Bottom Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Humiliation Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Aspect Copy Share Image
We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do… — Vijay Seshadri Aspect Copy Share Image
I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri Causes Copy Share Image
I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for… — Vijay Seshadri Bills Copy Share Image
Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it. — Vijay Seshadri Change Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Book Copy Share Image
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. — Vijay Seshadri Figures Copy Share Image
I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and… — Vijay Seshadri Giving Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Certain Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Ability Copy Share Image
We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness. — Vijay Seshadri Consciousness Copy Share Image
