Tagore’s “Into that heaven...” read by Samuel Godfrey George
Tagore has been a wayfarer towards the same goal as ours in his own way—that is the main thing, the exact stage of advance and putting of the steps are minor matters. His exact position as a poet or a prophet or anything else will be assigned by posterity and we need not be in haste to anticipate the final verdict. He belonged to an age which had faith in its ideas and whose very denials were creative affirmations. That makes an immense difference. Now all that idealism has been smashed to pieces by the immense adverse event and everybody is busy exposing its weaknesses—but nobody knows what to put in its place. And what else is there? Until new spiritual values are discovered, no great enduring creation is possible.

Life of Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941


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