Tagore Rabindranath
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
“Stray birds of the summer come to my window to sing and fly away.And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words . . . ”
“If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.”
“Ne vem, iz kakšnega daljnega časa mi prihajaš čedalje bolj naproti. Tvoje sonce in zvezde te ne morejo za zmeraj skriti pred menoj. Marsikakšno jutro in večer je bilo slišati tvoje stopnje in tvoj sel je prišel v moje srce in me skrivaj poklical.Ne vem, zakaj je danes moje življenje tako nemirno in mi srce prešinja občutek trepetajočega veselja. Kakor da prihaja čas, ko naj končam svoje delo, in v zraku čutim rahel duh tvoje blage navzočnosti.”
“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”