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Rabindranath Tagore

1861 - 1941

Author, Playwright, Indian Poet, Musician, Composer Philosopher, Social Reformer and Painter

Rabindranath Tagore was famous for winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and transforming Bengali art and literature

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars

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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

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Music fills the infinite between two souls

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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.

End Explanation Love Mystery

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Life Stars Sun Tears Yourself

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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.

Darkness Greatness Sea Silence Truth

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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

Leaving Season Sing Summer

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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Earth Generosity Reward

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Philosophy Reading World Wrong

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Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman

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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Dream Important Strange Wake Up

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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Soul Woman Worth

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

Children Courage God Man Spiritual

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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Dream Important Strange Wake Up

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Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Dream Generosity Joy Life Myself Philosophy

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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

Children End Sea World

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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

End Home Spiritual Travel World

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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success

About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was famous for winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and transforming Bengali art and literature

Notable Works

Rabindranath Tagore’s top works include Gitanjali, a Nobel Prize-winning poetry collection on spiritual devotion, and the novels Gora and Ghare-Baire, which critique identity and nationalism. His short story Kabuliwala highlights universal human connection, while his play Dak Ghar symbolizes the soul's yearning for freedom. Together, these masterpieces define the Bengal Renaissance.

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