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Untitled

c. 1934-1940
Rabindranath Tagore (Indian (eastern India, Calcutta), 1861–1941)
In a late essay on creativity, Tagore followed earlier Indian philosophers in equating the simultaneous joy, pain, bondage, and freedom of the creative moment with a lightning flash rupturing a stormy sky.

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