{"id":12700,"date":"2013-10-22T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12700"},"modified":"2013-10-22T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:14:19","slug":"the-furthest-distance-in-the-world-a-poem-by-rabindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12700","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Furthest Distance In The World&#8221; &#8211; a poem by Rabindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The furthest distance in the world<\/p>\n<p>Is not between life and death<\/p>\n<p>But when I stand in front of you<\/p>\n<p>Yet you don\u2019t know that I love you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The furthest distance in the world<\/p>\n<p>Is not when I stand in front of you<\/p>\n<p>Yet you can\u2019t see my love<\/p>\n<p>But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both<\/p>\n<p>Yet cannot be together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The furthest distance in the world<\/p>\n<p>Is not being apart while being in love<\/p>\n<p>But when plainly cannot resist the yearning<\/p>\n<p>Yet pretending you have never been in my heart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The furthest distance in the world<\/p>\n<p>Is not but using one\u2019s indifferent heart<\/p>\n<p>To dig an uncrossible river<\/p>\n<p>For the one who loves you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The writer of this poem was Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 \u2013 7 August 1941), a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. \u00a0He was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). I confess that I had never heard of this poem &#8211; or even of Tagore &#8211; until I was introduced to it recently by a dear Chinese friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The furthest distance in the world Is not between life and death But when I stand in front of you Yet you don\u2019t know that I love you &nbsp; The furthest distance in the world Is not when I stand in front of you Yet you can\u2019t see my love But when undoubtedly knowing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12702,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700\/revisions\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}