Liliterature-English/Bengali: September 2010

Quotations

§ The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

§ Our fight is a spiritual fight, it is for Man.

§ I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.

§ Creation is an endless activity of God's freedom; it is an end in itself.

§ Freedom is true when it is a revelation of truth.

India

has ever declared that Unity is Truth, and separateness is maya.

§ I believe in the true meeting of the East and the West.

§ It hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country with the clamour that the Western education can only injure us.

§ That which fails to illuminate the intellect, and only keeps it in the obsession of some delusion, is its greatest obstacle.

§ After sixty years of self-experience, I have found that out and out hypocrisy is an almost impossible achievement.

§ Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.

§ the religion of economics is where we should above all try to bring about this union of ours ... If this field ceases to be one of warfare, if there we can prove, that not competition but cooperation is the real truth, then indeed we can reclaim from the hands of the Evil One an immense territory for the reign of peace and goodwill.

§ I have no zeal for life. You know the only thing that concerns me? That I have laboured so hard to build Viswabharati, wouldn't it have no value after my exit? ... I think I have one reservation regarding death, and that is Viswabharati, nothing else.

§ It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five---difficult to say what would happen to him ... but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven years old--- it can be said he's become what he's supposed to be, and from now on this is how his life would be guided, there's in left anything in his life to get astonished.

§ To enjoy something, it's essential to guard it with the fence of leisure.

§ I do not put my faith in institutions, but in individuals all over the world who think clearly, feel nobly and act rightly. They are the channels of moral truth.

Corpus

— Bengali —

Poetry
* মানসী	Manasi	(The Ideal One)	1890
* সোনার তরী	Sonar Tari	(The Golden Boat)	1894
* গীতাঞ্জলি	Gitanjali	(Song Offerings)	1910
* গীতিমাল্য	Gitimalya	(Wreath of Songs)	1914
* বলাকা	Balaka	(The Flight of Cranes)	1916
Dramas
* বাল্মিকী প্রতিভা	Valmiki Pratibha	(The Genius of Valmiki)	1881
* বিসর্জন	Visarjan	(The Sacrifice)	1890
* রাজা	Raja	(The King of the Dark Chamber)	1910
* ডাকঘর	Dak Ghar	(The Post Office)	1912
* অচলায়তন	Achalayatan	(The Immovable)	1912
* মুক্তধারা	Muktadhara	(The Waterfall)	1922
* রক্তকরবী	Raktakaravi	(Red Oleanders)	1926
Fiction
* নষ্টনীড়	Nastanirh	(The Broken Nest)	1901
* গোরা	Gora	(Fair-Faced)	1910
* ঘরে বাইরে	Ghare Baire	(The Home and the World)	1916
* যোগাযোগ	Yogayog	(Crosscurrents)	1929
Memoirs
* জীবনস্মৃতি	Jivansmriti	(My Reminiscences)	1912
* ছেলেবেলা	Chhelebela	(My Boyhood Days)	1940

— English —

* Thought Relics

1921^[121]

— Translations —

* Chitra	1914^[36]
* Creative Unity	1922^[122]
* The Crescent Moon	1913^[123]
* Fireflies	1928
* Fruit-Gathering	1916^[124]
* The Fugitive	1921^[125]
* The Gardener	1913^[126]
* Gitanjali: Song Offerings	1912^[127]
* Glimpses of Bengal	1991^[128]
* The Home and the World	1985^[129]
* The Hungry Stones and other stories	1916^[130]
* I Won't Let you Go: Selected Poems	1991
* The Lover of God	2003
* My Boyhood Days	1943
* My Reminiscences	1991^[131]
* Nationalism	1991
* The Post Office	1914^[132]
* Sadhana: The Realisation of Life	1913^[133]
* Selected Letters	1997
* Selected Poems	1994
* Selected Short Stories	1991
* Songs of Kabir	1915^[134]
* Stray Birds	1916^[135]

Elected works:

KABIKAHINI, 1878
SADHYA SANGEET, 1882
PRABHAT SANGEET, 1883
BAU-THAKURANIR HAT, 1883
RAJASHI, 1887
RAJA O RANI, 1889 - The King and the Queen (tr. 1918) / Devouring Love (tr. 1961)
VISARGAN, 1890 - Sacrifice (tr. 1917)
MANASI, 1890
IUROPE-JATRIR DIARI, 1891, 1893 (2 vols.)
VALMIKI PRATIBHA, 1893
SONAR TARI, 1894 - The Golden Boat (translated by Bhabani Bhattacharya)
KSHANIKA, 1900
KATHA, 1900
KALPANA, 1900
NAIVEDYA, 1901 - Noibedya = Altar Offering (translation by Brother James)
NASHTANIR, 1901 - The Broken Nest (translated by Mary M. Lago and Supriya Sen)
SHARAN, 1902
CHOCHER BALI, 1903 - Eyesore (tr. 1914) / A Grain of Sand (tr. Sreejeta Guha)
NAUKADUBI, 1905 - The Wreck (tr. J.D. Drummond) - Haaksirikko (suom. J. Hollo)
KHEYA, 1906
GORA, 1907-09 - Gora (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore and Sujit Mukherjee) - Gora (suom. J. Hollo)
SARADOTSAVA, 1908 - Autumn Festival (tr. 1921)
RAJA, 1910 - The King of the Dark Chamber, 1914 (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore) - Pimeän kammion kuningas ja muita draamoja (suom. suom. J. Hollo)
GALPAGUCCHA, 1912 - A Bunch of Stories (translated by Monika Varma)
CHINNAPATRA, 1912 (expanded ed. CHINNAPATRABALI, 1960) - Glimpses of Bengal (tr. 1921)
VIDAY-ABHISAP, 1912 - The Curse at Farewell (translated by Edward Thompson)
GITANJALI, 1912 - Gitanjali (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore) / Gitanjali (translations by Brother James) / Song Offerings (tr. by Joe Winter, publ. Anvil Press) / Show Yourself to My Soul (tr. by James Talarovic) - Lauluja (suomentanut Eino Leino) / Uhrilauluja (suomentanut Eino Leino) / Uhrilauluja (suom. Osmo Iisalo)
JIBAN SMRTI, 1912 - My Reminiscenes (translated by Surendranath Tagore) - Elämäni muistoja (suom. J. Hollo)
DAKGHAR, 1912 - Post Office (translated by Devabrata Mukerjea) / The Post Office (translated by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson)
The Gardener, 1913 (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore) - Puutarhuri: suorasanaisia runoelmia (suomentanut Eino Leino)
The Crescent Moon, 1913 (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore)
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories, 1913
CHITRA, 1914 - Chitra (transl. R. Tagore)
GHITIMALAYA, 1914 - Gitimalya = Garland of Songs (translations by Brother James)
Songs of Kabir, 1915 (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill)
PHALGUNI, 1916 - The Cycle of Spring
GHARE-BAIRE, 1916 - The Home and the World (translated by Surendranath Tagore) - Koti ja maailma (suomentanut J. Hollo)
BALAK, 1916 - A Flight of Swans (tr. by Aurobindo Bose)
CHATURANGA, 1916 - Quartet (tr. Kaiser Haq) / Chaturanga, a Novel (translated by Asok Mitra)
Fruit Gathering, 1916 - Rakkauden laulu (suomentanut Hannele Pohjanmies)
SADHANA, 1916 - Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - Sadhana: elämän oleellistaminen (suom. J. Hollo)
Stray Birds, 1916 - Villilintuja: elämänviisautta (suomentanut Pertti Seppälä)
PERSONALITY, 1917 (lectures delivered in America) - Persoonallisuus (suomentanut J. Hollo)
Sacrifice, and Other Plays, 1917
Nationalism, 1917
Mashi and Other Stories, 1918 (translated by various writers)
Stories from Tagore, 1918
The Parrots Training, 1918 (tr. by Rabindranath Tagore)
PALATAKA, 1918
JAPAN-JATRI, 1919 - A Visit to Japan (tr. 1961)
Greater India, 1921 (tr. S. Ganesan)
The Fugitive, 1921
Creative Unity, 1921
LIPIKA, 1922 - Lipika: Prose Poems (translated by Aurobindo Bose)
MUKTA-DHARA, 1922 - Mukta-dhara (tr. 1950)
Poems, 1923
Letters from Abroad, 1924
GRIHAPRABESH, 1925
Broken Ties and Other Stories, 1925
Rabindranath Tagore: Twenty-Two Poems, 1925 (tr. E.J. Thompson)
RAKTA-KARABI, 1925 - Red Oleanders
NATIR PUJA, 1926 - Natir Puja (transl. 1950)
Fireflies, 1928
Letters to a Friend, 1928 (edited by C.F. Andrews)
SESHER KAVITA, 1929 - Farewell, My Friend (tr. by K.R. Kripalani)
MAHUA, 1929 - The Herald of Spring (tr. 1957)
JATRI, 1929
YAGAYOG, 1929 - Nexus (tr. Hiten Bhaya) / Relationships = Jogajog (translated by Supirya Chaudhuri)
The Religion of Man, 1930 (the Hibbert Lectures for 1930) - Ihmiskunnan uskonto (suomentanut Heikki Eskelinen)
The Child, 1931
RASHIAR CHITHI, 1931 - Letters from Russia (tr. 1960)
PATRAPUTA, 1932 - Patraput (translated by Sisir Chattopadhyaya)
PUNASCHA, 1932
Mahatmahi and the Depressed Humanity, 1932
The Golden Boat, 1932
Sheaves, Poems and Songs, 1932 (selected and translated by Nagendranath Gupta)
DUI BON, 1933 - Two Sisters (tr. 1945)
CHANDALIKA, 1933 - Chandalika (tr. by Shyamasree Devi, in Two Buddhist Plays, 1993)
MALANCHA, 1934 - The Garden (tr. Malosree Sandel)
CHAR ADHYAYA, 1934 - Four Chapters (tr. 1950)
BITHIKA, 1935
SHESH SAPTAK, 1935
SYAMALI, 1936 - Syamali (transl. 1955)
PATRAPUT, 1936
Collected Poems and Plays, 1936
KHAPCHARA, 1937
SEMJUTI, 1938
PRANTIK, 1938
PRAHASINI, 1939
PATHER SANCAY, 1939
AKASPRADIP, 1939
SYAMA, 1939
NABAJATAK, 1940
SHANAI, 1940
CHELEBELA, 1940 - Boyhood Days (translated by Radha Chakravarty) / My Boyhood Days: an Autobiographical Sketch (translated by Marjorie Sykes)
ROGSHAJYAY, 1940
AROGYA, 1941
JANMADINE, 1941
GALPASALPA, 1941
Last Poems, 1941
Rolland and Tagore, 1945
Three Plays, 1950 (translated by Marjorie Sykes)
Crisis in Civilization, 1950
More Stories from Tagore, 1951
A Tagore Testament, 1954 (tr. by Undu Dutt)
Our Universe, 1958 (tr. by Indu Dutt)
The Runaway and Other Stories, 1959
Wings of Death, 1960 (tr. by Aurobindo Bose)
GITABITAN, 1960
CHINNAPATRABALI, 1960 - Glimpses of Bengal
A Tagore Reader, 1961 (ed. by Amiya Chakravarty)
Towards Universal Man, 1961
On Art and Aesthetics, 1961
BICITRA, 1961
GALPAGUCCHA, 1960-62 (4 vols.)
Boundless Sky, 1964
The Housewarming, 1964
RABINDRA-RACANABALI, 1964-1966 (27 vols.)
Imperfect Encounter, 1972
Later Poems, 1974 (tr. by Aurobindo Bose)
The Housewarming, 1977
Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems, 1985 (translated by William Radice)
Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, 1991 (trans. by William Radice)