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
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.
You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.