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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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Acceptance Gift Love

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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

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The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Darkness Greatness Mystery

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Philosophy

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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Music Oneself Poetry

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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Heart Myself Pain

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

Darkness Faith Feeling

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Beautiful Flower Herself

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

Deep Enough Moments

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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Age Life Myself

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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth End Heaven

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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

Beautiful Love Seek

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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Afraid Moments Voice

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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Freedom Love Philosophy

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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Carry Life Myself

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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Difficult Happiness Philosophy

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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

God Myself Right

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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Myself Silence Sun

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We live in the world when we love it.

Live Love World

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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