“The butterfly counts not in months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore | V2Melody

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

Celebrating the intensity of the present moment rather than the length of life · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

Rabindranath Tagore

About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

7 May 1861–7 August 1941

Rabindranath Tagore, born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, and dead on 7 August 1941 in the same city, was one of the rare writers whose life seems inseparable from the cultural history of a nation. Yet to call him merely India’s greatest modern poet is to reduce an astonishingly various…

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Poems by Rabindranath Tagore

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“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its grasp with a hold that kills it.”

Showing how rigid certainty can destroy the truth it claims to protect · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

Faith
Truth

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Finding hope in childhood and in humanity’s continuing possibility of renewal · Prose aphorism, Stray Birds

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds.”

Warning against confusing political loyalty with deeper spiritual and moral values · Essay, Nationalism

Truth
War