Rabindranath Tagore

"A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore."

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Source: Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

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Rabindranath Tagore

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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