"Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem."

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Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

Vijay Seshadri

#Character Quotes #Self Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I do my job like I breathe â€” so if I canâ€™t breathe Iâ€™m in trouble.”
“Legalisation doesn't make sense.”
“Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.”
“I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you.”
“While it is important to win, itâ€™s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.”
“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.”
“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.”
“There is something very unstabilizing about not knowing where you're coming from or where you're going. There's something very romantic about it, because you have this search for the unknown. But at the same time, sometimes I'm like, "God, if I were to die tomorrow, where would I like to be buried?" I wouldn't know. That's kind of a heavy thought, but it's a fact. You don't know anymore where you belong.”

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