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Poet re-discovered this week: Rabindranath Tagore, India's only Poet Laureate.

Yeat's comment on Tagore/Indian poetry: "A tradition, where poetry and religion are the same thing, has passed through the centuries, gathering from learned and unlearned metaphor and emotion, and carried back again to the multitude the thought of the scholar and of the noble."

My older Indian friend concurs and comments that Indian poetry is a mirror-image of Hinduism, much more a way of life than a religion.

My comment on Tagore: He's been around a long while, but his work has something that is just so FRESH about it. Pick up Gitanjali again and see for yourself.