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Fruit-Gathering 23: The poet's mind floats and dances on the
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)
The poet's mind floats and dances on the waves of life amidst the voices of wind and water.
Now when the sun has set and the darkened sky draws upon the sea like drooping lashes upon a weary eye it is time to take away his pen, and let his thoughts sink into the bottom of the deep amid the eternal secret of that silence.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 23: The poet's mind floats and dances on the.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/536/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 23: The poet's mind floats and dances on the.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/536/.
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