Rabindranath Tagore:
He was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali. He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend.
Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honor as a protest against British policies in India.
Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself. Ravindernath Tagore's Quotes
A * 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 B * Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore * Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Rabindranath Tagore * By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower Rabindranath Tagore * By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. Rabindranath Tagore C *Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore * Child :"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." Rabindranath Tagore * Child: "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. " Rabindranath Tagore D * Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.: Rabindranath Tagore * Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. 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 E * Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Rabindranath Tagore * Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Rabindranath Tagore * Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Rabindranath Tagore: F
* Friend: "The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. Rabindranath Tagore * Friends: "Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore *Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore * From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest." Rabindranath Tagore * Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore: More quotes Next Page ___________________________ |
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