Creative Unity de Rabindranath Tagore

Creative Unity

Rabindranath Tagore

It costs me nothing to feel that I am; it is no burden to me. And yet if the mental, physical, chemical, and other innumerable facts concerning all branches of knowledge which have united in myself could be broken up, they would prove endless. It is some untold mystery of unity in me, that has the simplicity of the infinite and reduces the immense mass of multitude to a single point.

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a painter, philosopher, playwright, musician and social reformer, in addition to being a poet and writer. He was instrumental in reshaping Bengali writing, music and Indian art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He became the first non- European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for his famous collection of poems, Gitanjali. Tagore was referred to as 'the Poet of Bengal', and also went by the names Gurudev and Biswakabi.