“I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.”
Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Indian poet, writer, philosopher, and social activist, was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, and passed away on August 7, 1941. Tagore's works blend the influences of traditional Indian literature and Western literature, and his poetry, novels, plays, and essays have won the hearts of readers worldwide. He was the first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his works have had a profound impact on world literature. more
“Be unique,' I read, 'be bold, too!' But what they really mean is 'Don't be you.”
“Giving it my all looks like giving it all away”
“I deserve every bold admiration I am worthy of my own adoration”
“To sense a poem in the blush of a sunset is to sense the finer feelings of life.”