WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, writer, composer & artist

Born: 7 May 1861
Died: 7 August 1941
Lived in: Kolkata, Santiniketan, Bengal & worldwide travels

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist, composer, educator, and painter. His lyrical writing joined spiritual reflection with close observation of nature and human freedom, earning him the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

Songs written by Tagore became the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka’s anthem was also composed by one of his students and strongly shaped by his musical tradition.

Words by Rabindranath Tagore

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

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“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

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