A Poet's Mind

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric persona, floccose locks, and empyreal garb garnered him a prophet-like aura in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.
 A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At age sixteen, he cheekily released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bh?nusi?ha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by the region's literary grandees as long-lost classics. He graduated to his first short stories and dramas and the aegis of his birth name by 1877. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and strident anti-nationalist he denounced the Raj and advocated for independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
   
A Poet"s Mind, is a selection of quotations from the vast range of literary works of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore poet, Song writer, novelist, educationist, philosopher among others. A Nobel laureate, Tagore became a world figure not only for his poems and songs but also for his thoughts and ideas. This book offers a glimpse into that mind through an assortment of his quotations on Life, Love and Motivation. Read the quotations for a deeper perception of life, or for inspiration.