Multiple Quote by Vijay Seshadri

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

— 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.…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Vijay Seshadri

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being…

— Vijay Seshadri

When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions…

— 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…

— Vijay Seshadri

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

— Vijay Seshadri

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…

— Vijay Seshadri

We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness.…

— Vijay Seshadri

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

— Vijay Seshadri