Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

What it means

Both seasons have their beauty: full bloom and graceful falling. Tagore asks for a life lived brightly and an ending met with color, not dread. Live in full and let go well.

The source

"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves." Rabindranath Tagore said it in Stray Birds 82 (1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves."

Rabindranath Tagore, 1916, Stray Birds 82 (1916). Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Bengali poet, composer and teacher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He rendered his own short poems into English in Gitanjali and Stray Birds.

Questions

What does "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves." mean?

Both seasons have their beauty: full bloom and graceful falling. Tagore asks for a life lived brightly and an ending met with color, not dread. Live in full and let go well.

Who said "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves."?

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Source: Stray Birds 82 (1916).

What is the original wording?

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves (Rabindranath Tagore, 1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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