The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali, 69 (1912)
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When and why it was written
- When
- From Gitanjali, the collection for which Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
- Why
- Tagore is describing the life he feels in himself as the same life that moves through the world.
What it means
Tagore feels no wall between the life in his body and the life in leaves and grass. It is one stream.
The poem is an invitation to feel ordinary aliveness as something shared.
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Gitanjali, 1912
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