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| Subject: Rabindranath Tagore Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:03 pm | |
| Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941) Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. Otherwise, he was little known outside of the Calcutta area, and not known at all outside of India. Rabindranath Tagore: Poet, Philosopher, Musician, Writer, Educator, Nobel Laureate
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| Rabindranath TagoreThis all suddenly changed in 1912. He then returned to England for the first time since his failed attempt at law school as a teenager. Now a man of 51, his was accompanied by his son. On the way over to England he began translating, for the first time, his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. Almost all of his work prior to that time had been written in his native tongue of Bengali. He decided to do this just to have something to do, with no expectation at all that his first time translation efforts would be any good. He made the handwritten translations in a little notebook he carried around with him and worked on during the long sea voyage from India. Upon arrival, his son left his father's brief case with this notebook in the London subway. Fortunately, an honest person turned in the briefcase and it was recovered the next day. Tagore's one friend in England, a famous artist he had met in India, Rothenstein, learned of the translation, and asked to see it. Reluctantly, with much persuasion, Tagore let him have the notebook. The painter could not believe his eyes. The poems were incredible. He called his friend, W.B. Yeats, and finally talked Yeats into looking at the hand scrawled notebook.
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| Rabindranath Tagore
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore
Age considers; youth ventures. Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
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
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. Rabindranath Tagore
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. Rabindranath Tagore
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. Rabindranath Tagore | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore This listing contains works of Rabindranath Tagore
Fiction/Novel Category Home and the World, The A novel
Nobel Prize Winners in Literature And Their Works Category Home and the World, The A novel
Play Category Chitra, a Play in One Act A lyrical drama
Poem Category Stray Birds
Short Story Category "We Crown Thee King" Babus Of NayanJore, The Cabuliwallah [The Fruitseller from Cabul] Devotee, The Home-coming, The Hungry Stones, The Kingdom Of Cards, The Living Or Dead? My Lord, The Baby Once There Was A King Renunciation, The Victory, The Vision | |
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