“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

— Rabindranath Tagore · Wisdom quote

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. — 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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