Beskrajna ljubav - Unending Love — Rabindranath Tagore

The original poem was written in Bengali, but has been translated by Tagore himself.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) was is considered the greatest writer in modern Indian literature.
A Bengali poet, novelist, educator, Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913).
Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 in protest against the Massacre at Amritsar,
where British troops killed around 400 Indian demonstrators.

Pri drugom posjetu Europi Tagore je 13. studenog 1926. godine dosao u Zagreb
gdje je odrzao dva predavanja na engleskom jeziku, dok je pjesme citao na bengalskom jeziku.

"Unending Love" is one of the most famous and admired Rabindranath Tagore love poems.
It was also Audrey Hepburn's (1929 - 1993) favourite poem, and was recited by Gregory Peck (1916 - 2003) at Audrey's funeral.

Tagore's divine love here transcendences time and form and establishes itself as the only eternal force in the universe.

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Beskrajna ljubav — Unending Love

1913. dobitnik Nobelove nagrade za knjizevnost
1913 Nobel Laureater in Literature

   I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
   In life after life, in age after age, forever.
   My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
   That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
   In life after life, in age after age, forever.

   Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
   Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
   As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
   Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
   You become an image of what is remembered forever.

   You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
   At the heart of time, love of one for another.
   We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
   Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell —
   Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

   Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
   The love of all man's days both past and forever:
   Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
   The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours —
   And the songs of every poet past and forever.

   Cini mi se da sam te morao voljeti na bezbroj nacina, bezbroj puta...
   U zivotu nakon zivota, u vremenu nakon vremena, zauvijek.
   Moje potreseno srce je stvorilo i iznova stvara ogrlicu pjesama.
Primi je kao dar, nosi je omotanu oko vrata na svoje razlicite nacine.
U zivotu nakon zivota, u vremenu nakon vremena, zauvijek.

   Kad cujem stare price o ljubavi, budi se stoljecima stara bol,
   Ta prastara prica o razdvojenosti ili zajednistvu,
   Kad se zagledam u prosla vremena, na koncu se uvijek pojavis ti.
   Odjevena sjajem polarne zvijezde koja prodire kroz tamu vremena:
Postajes slika koja se zauvijek pamti.

   Ti i ja plutamo potokom koji od izvora tece
   U srcu vremena, u ljubavi jedan prema drugom.
   Plesali smo uz milijun drugih ljubavnika, dijeleci istu
   Stidljivu dragost zbog sastanka, iste potresne suze rastanka —
Stara ljubav u obliku u kojem se uvijek iznova radja i radja.

   Danas je ona pod tvojim nogama, pronasavsi svoj kraj u tebi
   Ljubavi svih ljudi iz svih vremena, u proslosti i u vjecnosti:
   Beskrajna sreca, beskrajna tuga, beskrajan zivot.
   Sjecanja svih ljubavi spajaju se s ovom nasom ljubavlju —
Zavrsetak pjesama svakog pjesnika proslosti i buducnosti.

Rabindranath Tagore

(1861 - 1941)