Quote by Rabindranath Tagore: “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.”

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Gitanjali was composed as Tagore processed profound personal grief following the deaths of his wife, two children, and father within a span of years. The Nobel Committee described the collection as one of the most beautiful books in any language. Its publication in English in 1912 was facilitated by W.B. Yeats, who wrote the introduction.

Bengali poet, philosopher, and artist from Calcutta who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His collection Gitanjali, a sequence of devotional poems, brought him international recognition. He founded the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.