Rabindranath Tagore Quotes


When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.


Citations

Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali. Macmillan, 1913, p. 29.

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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
  • Born: May 7, 1861
  • Died: August 7, 1941
  • Nationality: British, Indian
  • Profession: Poet

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".