“In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)

About Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941

Bengali poet, novelist and composer, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!”

“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”

“Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

“I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”