"Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky."
"A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame."
Source: Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and philosopher, renowned for his profound insights into love and humanity, notably through his work 'Gitanjali'.
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