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# Vikram Seth

(1952)   Poet   India

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Vikram Seth is a poet from India, best known for *A Suitable Boy*.

## Quick Facts About Vikram Seth

Born June 20, 1952

Nationality India

Profession Poet

Notable works A Suitable Boy

Known for An Equal Music, The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy

## About Vikram Seth

His work has earned him the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Crossword Book Award. Poetry collections such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are noted as important contributions to Indian English language poetry.

## Awards & Honors

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Sahitya Akademi Award in English Guggenheim Fellowship Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Commander of the Order of the British Empire Padma Shri in literature and education

##  Quotes by Vikram Seth · Page 2

> [I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-don-t-pick-and-choose-subjects-or-settings-they-pick-and-choose-me/)

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> [To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/to-not-be-able-to-love-the-one-you-love-is-to-have-your-life-wrenched/)

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> [God save us from people who mean well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/god-save-us-from-people-who-mean-well/)

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> [Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/don-t-put-things-off-till-it-s-too-late-you-are-the-dj-of-your-fate/)

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> [You can talk good ideas out of existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/you-can-talk-good-ideas-out-of-existence/)

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[Existence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence/)

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> [Good music is good music, but it has to be good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/good-music-is-good-music-but-it-has-to-be-good/)

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[Be good](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/be-good/)

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> [You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/you-know-i-can-imagine-not-writing-a-novel-and-writing-poetry-only/)

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> [The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/the-thing-about-inspiration-is-that-it-takes-your-mind-off-everything/)

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> [I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-think-if-something-is-worth-doing-it-s-worth-doing-well-and-worth/)

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[Thinking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/)

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> [Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/think-of-many-things-never-place-your-happiness-in-one-person-s-power/)

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[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

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> [I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-have-a-reputation-for-being-hermitlike-i-m-not-i-m-just-obsessed/)

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> [I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-think-it-s-possible-to-be-multi-rooted-rather-like-a-banyan-tree/)

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> [“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/perhaps-it-is-true-that-for-all-the-evidence-of-the-mirror-one/)

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> [Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/dear-though-the-reader-might-be-i-d-be-silly-to-cater-to-what-the/)

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> [On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/on-the-whole-i-don-t-like-reading-long-books-i-m-not-a-fan-of-ulysses/)

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> [Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/of-course-the-greater-one-s-need-the-greater-one-s-propensity-to-be/)

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> [You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/you-have-to-learn-a-few-things-which-you-do-along-the-way-but/)

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> [The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/the-trick-to-being-a-novelist-is-to-act-like-an-iceberg-make-it-seem/)

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> [Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/of-course-a-law-that-is-selectively-used-is-in-one-aspect-even-worse/)

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> [I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-certainly-think-its-very-important-that-writers-as-citizens-not/)

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> [Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/quietly-they-moved-down-the-calm-and-sacred-river-that-had-come-down/)

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> [Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/every-object-strives-for-its-proper-place-a-book-seeks-to-be-near-its/)

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> [If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/if-you-were-to-ask-me-to-pick-my-favourite-author-well-there-are-so/)

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> [Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/why-do-writers-say-give-up-a-job-in-economics-and-decide-to-write/)

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> [In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/in-general-questions-are-fine-you-can-always-seize-upon-the-parts-of/)

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> [The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/the-point-really-is-that-a-writer-tends-to-write-a-book-that-he-or/)

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> [“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/and-you-spend-your-day-going-around-from-the-house-of-the-washerman/)

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[Altruism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/altruism/)

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> [“Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/life-is-not-easy-for-anyone-here-loss-and-fear-failure-and/)

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> [“A Word Of Thanks To these I know a debt past telling: My several muses, harsh and kind; My folks, who stood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/a-word-of-thanks-to-these-i-know-a-debt-past-telling-my-several-muses/)

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> [All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/all-over-india-all-over-the-world-as-the-sun-or-the-shadow-of/)

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> [Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/behind-every-door-on-every-ordinary-street-in-every-hut-in-every/)

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> [Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/everyone-sort-of-sees-his-own-life-and-times-as-being-ephemeral-one/)

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> [“There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now. When? said Lata. When you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/there-was-a-few-seconds-pause-then-amit-said-i-meant-what-were-you/)

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> [I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-tend-to-follow-a-scattershot-approach-to-reading-a-lot-of-very/)

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> [“The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/the-past-is-the-past-and-he-can-t-make-amends-only-hope-that-the-gain/)

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> [I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-don-t-think-people-give-indian-society-enough-credit-we-may-not/)

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> [I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-need-my-natural-laziness-to-be-counteracted-by-obsession-in-order/)

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> [I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-don-t-think-anyone-should-be-banned-if-you-don-t-like-a-book-set-it/)

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[Banned](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/banned/)

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> [I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/i-simply-seem-to-drift-but-i-sort-of-allow-the-drift-because-it-has-a/)

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> [In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/in-spite-of-all-temptations-of-belonging-to-many-nations-i-ve/)

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[Belonging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belonging/)

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## Vikram Seth by topic

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                        "text": "“A Word Of Thanks To these I know a debt past telling: My several muses, harsh and kind; My folks, who stood my sulks and yelling, And (in the long run) did not mind; Dead legislators, whose orations I've filched to mix my own potations; Indeed, all those whose brains I've pressed, Unmerciful, because obsessed; My own dumb soul, which on a pittance Survived to weave this fictive spell; And, gentle reader, you as well, The fountainhead of all remittance. Buy me before good sense insists You'll strain your purse and sprain your wrists.”",
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                        "text": "All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.",
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                        "text": "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 found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.",
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