Poetry and life are two different outpouring of the same thing

Jibananda DasJibananda Das17 Feb 1899

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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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Jibananda Das

Jibananda Das was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'', Das is probably the most read poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal.

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