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Our village poet sings: “Man will brightly flash into your sight, my…
Quote byRabindranath Tagore · 1861–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Religion of Man (1922), p 122.
English (original)
Our village poet sings: “Man will brightly flash into your sight, my heart, if you shut the door of desires.” We have seen how primitive man was occupied with his physical needs, and thus restricted himself to the present which is the time boundary of the animal; and he missed the urge of his consciousness to seek its emancipation in a world of ultimate human value.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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