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
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
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.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.
There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.