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
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.
If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.