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
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
To find God, you must welcome everything.
My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them....
Those who own much have much to fear.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.
Love gives beauty to everything it touches.