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Offline cuberdrift

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Where does this quote by Tagore come from?
on: October 29, 2017, 06:01:54 AM
I keep seeing it in the Internet but they don't reference the source.

It goes:

SILENCE MY SOUL
 
Silence my soul, these trees are prayers.
I asked the tree, “Tell me about God”;
then it blossomed.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath—writer, poet, painter, and composer.


Source: https://spectrummagazine.org/article/rabindranath-tagore/2014/02/14/lessons-trees

Does anyone know where this material came from?

Thanks!

Regards,
cuberdrift

Offline Bob

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Re: Where does this quote by Tagore come from?
Reply #1 on: October 29, 2017, 09:51:00 AM
No luck, but I'd guess from here, if he wrote it down to begin with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Rabindranath_Tagore
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

Offline klavieronin

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Re: Where does this quote by Tagore come from?
Reply #2 on: October 29, 2017, 10:37:29 AM
This site has his complete works but I searched on it for the quote you are looking for and came up empty; https://tagoreweb.in/

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Re: Where does this quote by Tagore come from?
Reply #3 on: October 29, 2017, 01:25:39 PM
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."
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