印度詩人泰戈爾的詩集，泰戈爾是首位獲得諾貝爾文學獎的亞洲詩人。本書收錄其《飛鳥集》、《新月集》兩本詩集，《飛鳥集》是短詩，《新月集》則是長詩。短詩比較有讓人聯想的空間，長詩對我而言太難了，看不懂的字詞太多。還好本書有中英對照，雖然中文有點像 google 翻譯；泰戈爾生活在 20 世紀初，用字跟現代差異蠻大的，像是 dada 是哥哥的意思。
節錄幾首比較有印象的詩：
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
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Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
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The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
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The steam of truth flows through its channels of mistakes.
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Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
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That love can ever lose is a fact that we cannot accept as truth.
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