Rabindranath Tagore
Born: 05-06-1861
Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned Bengali polymath, celebrated for his profound contributions to literature, music, and art. Born in 1861 in Calcutta, India, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore's works explore themes of humanism, nationalism, and spirituality, with notable creations like "Gitanjali" and the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. His legacy endures as a cultural and literary icon.
Book summaries for books written by Rabindranath Tagore
Quotes
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
My love, what is your responsibility? Only to love.
The fire in you is great, my friend. But how will you burn? On what fuel? Let me provide it.
He strikes no false note, there is no jarring in him. He is the greatest of artists.
Worship the self within you and all else will follow suit.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay or turn aside.
Man should conquer his country, not hope to conquer the world outside.
She was like the morning, she had drenched the darkness with her light.
The world is the mirage of the divine imagination.
Time is consecrated, its curse is abolished, its service is perfect freedom.
My love, let our love be such that it leaps forth and reveals itself in form and color and fragrance — in word, in act, in letters.
To try to extinguish a blaze made up of so many fine fuels is a dangerous obstacle for a weak woman like you.