Poetry and life are two different outpouring of the same thing

Jibanananda DasJibanananda Das17 Feb 1899 – 22 Oct 1854

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Poetry and life are two different outpouring of the same thing; life as we usually conceive it contains what we normally accept as reality, but the spectacle of this incoherent and disorderly life can satisfy neither the poet's talent nor the reader's imagination ... poetry does not contain a complete reconstruction of what we call reality; we have entered a new world.

— Jibanananda Das

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Jibanananda Das

Jībanānanda Dāś (/dʒɪbɒnʌnɒndɔː dʌʃ/) (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' (Poet of Beautiful Bengal), Das is the most read poet after Rabindra…

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