Rabindranath Tagore, or Thakur:
(Calcutta, 7 May 1861 – there, 7 August 1941)
Famous Indian poet, novelist and playwright. He also practised painting and also spoke Esperanto. He was also the first Indian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore wrote the Indian and Bengali national anthems.
I slept, and dreamed that life was joy; I awoke and saw: life is duty; I worked and behold: duty is joy!
You cannot cross the sea just by staring at the water.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
The chirping of the cricket and the clatter of the rain come to me through the dark like rustling dreams of my past childhood.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rest belongs to work like the eyelids to the eyes.
I came to thy shore as a stranger, I dwelt in thy house as a guest, I pass from thy door as a friend, my earth.
Being candid is easy as long as there is no need to tell the full truth.
Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.
The untrue can never become truth by increasing in power.
Close your door to all error, then shut out the truth.
The obsequious brush curtails truth in diference to the canvas which is narrow.
