Rabindranath Tagore রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
poet · Bengal, India · 1861–1941
A poet of Bengal. In 1913 he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for Gitanjali, his own English versions of his Bengali poems.
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1912 · A poem that ends in a prayer that his country may awake into such a heaven of freedom. It was under British rule at the time
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth
Gitanjali 35
1913
"Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?" the baby asked its mother.
"The Beginning," in The Crescent Moon
1916
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Stray Birds, 6
1916
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Stray Birds, 82
1916
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Stray Birds
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