“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, The Fourfold Way of India (1924)

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.”

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”

“When the gods created mankind, death they dispensed to mankind, life they kept for themselves.”

“For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”