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Vijay Seshadri is an American poet known for his profound emotions and rich imagination. His works often explore issues of personal identity, cultural conflict, and the deeper questions of human existence.

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Writing Wells I Can Pay Teacher Teaching Students Bills Consistently

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.”

Thinking Giving Jobs Teacher Institutions

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“It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.”

Trying Important Figures

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“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.”

Certain Pure Aspect Purity Hierarchy

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“We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.”

People Mean Issues Example Periods Aspect Exciting Sexuality Contemporary Like Me Indian Not Alone Nationality Trans

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“Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.”

Knows Technology Transforming

Author: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 you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.”

Way Firsts Self Certain Speak Language Series Mask Representing

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“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.”

Kind Self Character Facts Certain Social Interesting Historical Mediums Genre Essays

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.”

Individual Voice Ability Determined Collectives Essays Representing

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“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 instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.”

World Writing Persons Emotional Citizens Responsible Prose Instability Responsible Person

Author: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 aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.”

Ideas Real Seems Courses Social Fiction Media Identity Fit Aspect Science Fiction Social Media Contemporary Wonderland Contemporary Life

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.”

Universe Theory Multiple

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

Thinking Way Order Various Splits Multitudes Think Of You

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“Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.”

Knows Way Looks Self Struggle Identity

Author: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. That's kind of unthinkable.”

Thinking Kind Representation Think Of You Unthinkable

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.”

Thinking Consciousness Subjectivity

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“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 led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.”

People Thinking Feels Facts Might Given Social Roles Cases Creation Originals Bottom Contradiction Immigrants Ladders Confined Social Roles

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

Thinking Pain Causes Resources Rhetorical

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“I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.”

Book Reader Library Grades Prize Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.”

Doe Earth Sun Tilt

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“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.”

Writing Real Stories Life Is Humiliation Real Story

Author:Vijay Seshadri

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Born: February 13, 1954
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 21

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