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Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore·1912·Bengali

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A collection of devotional poems, translated into English prose by Tagore himself, that won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gitanjali means 'song offerings.' The poems speak of the relationship between the human and the divine not through doctrine but through longing, gratitude, and the sensory world: rain, harvest, the lamp at dusk.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; where words come out from the depth of truth; where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection — into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

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