Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, musician, and philosopher who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913). His poetry collection 'Gitanjali,' his composition of India's national anthem, and his founding of Visva-Bharati University made him the most influential cultural figure in modern South Asian history.

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Source: Gitanjali, poem 35Verified

Rabindranath Tagore's Other Quotes

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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