泰戈尔是印度著名的诗人、哲学家和印度民族主义者,他的诗歌广受欢迎,以下是他的一些著名诗句:
1. "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 led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
(当心灵无惧,头顶高扬;
当知识自由;
当世界未被狭隘的家园之墙分割;
当言语从真理的深处涌出;
当不懈的追求伸展其臂膀,向完美前进;
当清晰的理性之流没有迷失在沉闷的习惯之沙中;
当心灵在你引导下,向更广阔的思想和行动前进——
让我祖国觉醒,进入那自由的天堂,我的父亲。)
2. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
(生活中最好的把握是彼此。)
3. "The world has not become what it is because men have done what is right, but because they have done what was expedient."
(世界之所以成为现在这样,不是因为人们做了正确的事,而是因为他们做了方便的事。)
4. "If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."
(如果你因为错过了太阳而流泪,你也会错过星星。)
这些诗句体现了泰戈尔深邃的思想和丰富的情感,至今仍被广泛引用和传颂。