"In common with thousands of his countrymen I owe much to one by his poetic genius and singular purity of life has raised India in the estimation of the world". --Mahatma Gandhi
"The entire Indian civilization spoke through the poetic wisdom of Rabindranath Tagore". --Deepak Chopra
"[Tagore's] lyrics...display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long". --W.B. Yeats
"Tagore, who was a great master of words, seems to me to have spoken about language, and its connection with social and political life, with acute insight, and what he said has great interest for us today". --Isaiah Berlin