I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?