Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
Tagore, Rabindranath. Nationalism. Macmillan, 1917, p. 97.
Adopted in 1776 as the motto for the seal of the United States
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".