Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist born in Calcutta, India. He reshaped Bengali literature and music by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial. However, his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Internationally, Gitanjali is Tagore’s best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913.
Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore…
The Formless is in the midst of all forms.
The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite, the finite to disappear in the infinite. I do not know whose scheme this is, that the bound should be on a search for freedom, freedom asking to be housed in the bound.
