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
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?