Authors / Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore quotes

1861–1941 · Bengali poet, Nobel laureate 1913

Tagore was the first non-European Nobel laureate in literature and wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. His own English versions are quoted here.

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3 quotes traced to Rabindranath Tagore's own work or a reliable witness.

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Source: Stray Birds, 129 (1916)

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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Source: Stray Birds, 82 (1916)

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

Source: Fireflies (1928)