Today, on the 151st Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti, here are some poems and quotes written by the Bard of Bengal to share on this special day. 

Rabindranath Tagore is fondly remembered for his teachings and his commendable work in literature. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengal polymath, who worked as a writer, poet, composer, playwright, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first Indian to win a Nobel prize in the field of literature and gave several gems to the country in the form of his books and poems.Advertisement

Every year, Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary is celebrated on May 7. Today, on the 151st Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti, here are some poems and quotes written by him to share on this special day. 

Some poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Flower

Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.

I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am
aware, and the time of offering go by.

Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

Chain Of Pearls

Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck
with my tears of sorrow.

The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet,
but mine will hang upon thy breast.

Wealth and fame come from thee
and it is for thee to give or to withhold them.
But this my sorrow is absolutely mine own,
and when I bring it to thee as my offering
thou rewardest me with thy grace.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Happy Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti quotes

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.

If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.