His works, whether poems or plays, have and continue to inspire innumerable individuals all over the world. His writings have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and other European languages. Not only that, but his work also influenced the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, as well as Sri Lanka.
He began writing at the age of eight and by the age of sixteen had published his first major poetry. He was born in a Bengali Brahmin household in Calcutta.
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Rabindranath Tagore was born on the 25th Baishakh, 1268, in Bengali calendar (May 7, 1861, in Gregorian calendar) at Jorasanko palace of Calcutta, then in British India. He was the youngest of the 13 surviving children of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
In 1921, he envisioned and created the Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, with the goal of spreading the practise of culture and literature across the world and producing future artists and literateurs.
Tagore was the first Bengali and non-European poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his anthology of lyrical ballads, ‘Gitanjali' (Song Offerings).
He died on August 7, 1941, at the age of 80, putting an end to a lengthy period of agony.
True Scoop brings some life-changing quotes penned by him:
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure.
"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
"Love does not claim possession but gives freedom."
"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
"Those who own much have much to fear."
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free."