“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

— Rabindranath Tagore · Wisdom quote

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. — 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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