“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Bengali polymath 1861–1941

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“The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true,
the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony
of wishing in my heart…”

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“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
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