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
Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
Inspiration follows aspiration.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.