Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.

What it means

Tagore's prayer for his country begins with a people who are unafraid and unbowed. It is a picture of freedom from the inside out. Carry yourself that way and help build places where others can.

The source

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high." Rabindranath Tagore said it in Gitanjali 35 (1912). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1912.

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;"

Rabindranath Tagore, 1912, Gitanjali 35 (1912). 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 "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high." mean?

Tagore's prayer for his country begins with a people who are unafraid and unbowed. It is a picture of freedom from the inside out. Carry yourself that way and help build places where others can.

Who said "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high."?

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Source: Gitanjali 35 (1912).

What is the original wording?

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; (Rabindranath Tagore, 1912). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1912.

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