“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

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.”

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

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

“Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”