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Stray Birds
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Stray Birds is Rabindranath Tagore's 1916 collection of short, aphoristic poems, many only a line or two long. Like birds passing through, they catch a single image or thought and let it go: a leaf, a moment, a glimpse of the infinite in the ordinary. It distills his lyrical spirituality into its smallest and most quotable form.
About the author — Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 to 1941) was a Bengali poet, composer, and polymath, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A central figure of the Bengal Renaissance, he wrote with a spiritual lyricism that crossed easily between East and West.
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What is Stray Birds by Tagore about?
It is a collection of very short poems and aphorisms that find meaning in fleeting, ordinary moments, treating nature and daily life as glimpses of something larger.
What is the most famous quote from Stray Birds?
One of the best loved is that the world's tears keep its smiles in bloom, a line typical of Tagore's gentle linking of sorrow and beauty.
Why read Stray Birds?
For its brevity and serenity. Each piece is small enough to read in seconds and open enough to stay with, making it an ideal book to dip into.