Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 May 1861
CityKolkata, India
CountryIndia
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.
Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.