Lines by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Bengali poet, composer and painter · 1861–1941
Rabindranath Tagore wrote poems, songs, stories and plays in Bengali, and translated some of his own work into English. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free.
Gitanjali (the author’s English version), poem 35
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Stray Birds, verse 6
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Stray Birds, verse 82