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
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.
I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.