Honestly I tried very hard You may have wanted me to be the bard Neither polymath nor artist Writer or poet Lawyer or scholar Critic or academic I ended up A very civil servant A disappointment, a mere footnote. Whereas your life was extraordinary Mine is much more ordinary CouldnвЂ™t match your exalted ideals As I settled on the comforts of the mundane. 'It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.Perched on your lofty pedestal You look down Eyes filled with scorn At my culpable failures DonвЂ™t judge me too harshly ItвЂ™s so easy to mock If only you know how I suffered Living with myself Through the ghost of my past darkly. 'Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.' 'If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.' 'Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.' 'A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.' 'Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. 'In art, man reveals himself and not his objects.' 'Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.' The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.' 'The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. On his 80th birth anniversary, here are some quotes by the Bard of Bengal to remind you of the genius. The combination of his life's experiences gave us the gift of his poetry, prose, song-writing, and art.

From mystical romanticism to patriotism, Rabindranath Tagore left no stone unturned in the realm of artistic expression. Moreover, two nations chose his compositions as their national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare-Baire are some of his best-known works. He returned to India in the year 1880.ДЄLSO READ: Rabindranath Tagore 159th Birth Anniversary: Date, significance, lesser-known facts He was inspired by English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes. However, he soon left school and started studying literature. He also studied law at the University College London. Tagore enrolled at a public school at Brighton in East Sussex, England, at the age of 17.

He lost his mother at the young age of 14. Rabindranath Tagore, son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi, was born on May 7, 1861, in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta. He was the first non-European person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his translated work of poetry, ' Gitanjali: Song Offerings.' He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The subtle genius of his stories and poetry has left an indelible mark on the world. Also known as Rabi, Gurudev and Biswakabi, Rabindranath Tagore's work has inspired generations of artists. Today marks the 80th death anniversary of the great polymath - poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter - and the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore.

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