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
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.