May Sinclair was a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.
“No wonder that Mr. Tagore appeals so strongly to the common heart of his people and that his songs are sung and understood in the villages of his province as well as in the churches of the Brahma Samaj.”
“I should not have said that these song-offerings are ”one side” of him. They are, rather, the outcome of his ultimate vision, the crown that he has set upon his life, his final sacrifice to the Unseen.”
“In his very austerity, his stoicism, there is the tenderness, the subtleness, the grace of the Vaishnavist, the adorer of life. Like Whitman’s his adoration of life is not greater than his adoration of death.”