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Tagorespeak

posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 08:10 PM

‘Just as he allowed me to wander the mountains at will, so father left me free to select my path in the quest for the truth’

‘Whatever may be the outward aspect of Britain’s power, I have no doubt that at its core is the power of the spirit’.

‘Looking back at my childhood I feel the thought that recurred most often was that I was surrounded by mystery’

‘As I look around I see the crumbling ruins of a proud civilisation strewn like a vast heap of futility. And yet I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in man’ – Crisis in Civilisation, April 1941

‘That education is a living, not a mechanical process is a truth as freely admitted as it is persistently ignored’. – lecture, Calcutta, February 1936

‘Boys are less bold and far more self conscious than girls’

‘We wrote, we sang, we acted, we poured ourselves out on every side.’

‘Emptiness is a thing man cannot bring himself to believe in: that which is not, is untrue; that which is untrue, is not.’

‘The West is still, after half a century, groping in the half-light to discern the features of Tagore’s genius’. E.P. Thompson, 1993

‘Great poets raise Taj Mahals to their memory out of their works’ Tagore on Shakespeare

‘I have this paradox in my nature that when I begin to enjoy my success I grow weary of it in the depth of my mind’ – Santiniketan, 1921
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