“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

— Rabindranath Tagore · Life quote

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. — Rabindranath Tagore quote card
Poet · 1861 – 1941

Bengali poet and polymath from India; the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913), known for Gitanjali.

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