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Rabindranath Tagore

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Tagore sought "the play of feeling and not of action". The original though prized in Bengal long failed to spawn a "free and comprehensible" translation and its archaic and sonorous didacticism failed to attract interest from abroad. Yet a latent reverence of Tagore was discovered by an astoniRabindranath Tagored Salman Rushdie during a trip to Nicaragua.

Rabindranath Thakur anglicised to Tagore[About this sound] pronunciation (help·info) (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Gitanjali (Song Offerings) Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works and his verse short stories and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism colloquialism naturalism and unnatural contemplation. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures.

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