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Title: Rabindranath Tagore
Post by: Frederique on 04 Jun, 2011, 09:13:08
Rabindranath Tagore  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" still remain largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal.

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Rabindranath Tagore

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Title: Rabindranath Tagore, Endless Time
Post by: Frederique on 04 Jun, 2011, 09:14:17

Rabindranath Tagore, Endless Time

Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.

Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.

Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.

We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for a chance.
We are too poor to be late.

And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut;
but I find that yet there is time.

Source:  Poem Hunter  (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/endless-time/)
Title: Rabindranath Tagore, Mind Without Fear
Post by: Frederique on 04 Jun, 2011, 09:15:23
Rabindranath Tagore, Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Source: Selected Poems - School of Wisdom (http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/history/teachers/rabindranath-tagore/gitanjali/)