The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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About Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941 · Indian

Bengali polymath, poet, philosopher and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913). His Gitanjali offered the West a luminous window into Indian spirituality, and his songs and verse remain woven into the soul of Bengal.

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