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Rabindranath Tagore

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#butterfly #counts #enough #moments #months

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#child #dismiss #first #first time #name

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#beholds #face #her #mirror #own

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.


— Rabindranath Tagore


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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#heart #lies #love #love is #mere

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#comes #discouraged #every #god #man

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#dark #great #great silence #great truth #sea

Facts are many, but the truth is one.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#many #truth #truth is

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.


— Rabindranath Tagore


#dust #forgets #gloom #god #out






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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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