I have recently been introduced to the works of Tagore. I would like to share possibly my favourite Tagore poem. I fell in love with this instantly and wanted to share it with as many people as i could. I hope these words of hope in humanity, bring as much joy to you as they did in me. If you enjoy this I recommend looking up more of his poems.
Where the Mind is Without Fear
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:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
--Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
