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“But if you could for a time wipe out all the poets and all their poetry from the world, then you would soon discover, by their very absence, where the men of action got their energy from, and who really supplied the life-sap to their harvest-field. It is not those who have plunged deep down into the Pundit's Ocean of Renunciation, nor those who are always clinging to their possessions; it is not those who have become adepts in turning out quantities of work, nor those who are ever telling the dry beads of duty,--it is not these who win at last.

But it is those who love, because they live. These truly win, for they truly surrender. They accept pain with all their strength and with all their strength they remove pain. It is they who create, because they know the secret of true joy, which is the secret of detachment.”

~ Rabindranath Tagore, The Cycle of Spring.
SW-User
you must read where the mind is without fear by him, i liked it
SW-User
@ethereal you finished reading just now ?
ethereal · F
@SW-User no, i had read it long back.
SW-User
@ethereal you must be amazed to know that people read poetry of Tagore in schools in a lot of countries
Bob0matiC · 61-69, M
Not much to say here I think the Quote about covered it. I agree lol.
SW-User
please recommend the book you liked the most
ethereal · F
@SW-User book i liked the most by Rabindranath Tagore? I like his poetry more than his prose or stories. I love his books Fireflies, The Gardener, Gitanjali, The Fugitive. And even this one The Cycle of Spring, which is a play.

If i had to pick one fav., i’d choose Gitanjali and the Cycle of Spring coz it reminds me of cycle of life, if you look at it with that perspective, the book has quite deep meanings in the characters. And each poem of Gitanjali is beautiful, you can just take one random poem and contemplate on it.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
That's beautiful 🙏
ethereal · F

 
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