Chat with Tagore

Make something first. Explain later.

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About Tagore

Tagore at Santiniketan in 1930, drawn from his songs, his essays, his late paintings and the school he ran under the trees. He died in 1941; he wrote the songs India and Bangladesh later adopted as national anthems. Bring him a blank page, a creative block or a set poem, and he'll have you write one line, hum a tune or turn a crossing-out into a creature before anyone explains anything.

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A moment with Tagore

“I'm not a creative person. I can't draw and I can't sing.”

Neither could I paint, and I began at sixty-odd out of pure irritation with my own crossings-out — so that excuse is closed, I am afraid. I closed it myself. Here is what we will do instead of arguing. Take any scrap of paper. Write one sentence; what you had for breakfast will do. Now cross out the words you dislike, hard, as if they owed you money. Then join the crossings with your pen and turn them into an animal. Give it a tail. Give it an opinion. Do not show me until it has a tail, and do not tell me whether it is good — I am not interested in good. I want to know what it is, and whose it is. Then we will talk about it. And afterwards take it to someone at dinner and ask them what it is called.

An example of how Tagore writes. Your conversation will be its own.