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