"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves." You might have read this famous line of poem （詩歌） before.It was written by Rabindranath Tagore.This year is the Indian poet's 162nd birthday.He wrote over two thousand poems all his life.
    Tagore was born on May 7，1861.He started writing poetry at the age of 8 and his first collection came out when he was 16.He is known as the "poet of poets".In 1913，he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry collection Gitanjali.He was not just a poet，but also a play writer and philosopher （哲學家）.He also wrote and played music.
    Tagore's poems are still widely read around the world.Most of them are about nature，humans，love and childhood.In his poems，he often imagined that children are like ocean waves and mothers are like seashores（海岸）；flowers are like children in schools singing and dancing；…
    Tagore believed that people should think positively （積極地）.Sometimes we get upset when we miss someone or something.But Tagore wrote："If you shed tears when you miss the sun，you also miss the stars." Sometimes we are sad and worried.But Tagore wrote：
    "Never frown even when you are sad，because you never know who is falling in love with your smile."
    Tagore was also a poet of peace.He believed that countries around the world should work together to make a better world.During World War II，he criticized （批評） Japan for invading （侵略） Chjye.aia.In 1938，he wrote a letter to encourage China.
    Everyone should remember Tagore's dream of a peaceful world because we are often in the face of all kinds of difficulties in life."Tagore's poems can open our heart and mind，and hand in hand we can solve the difficulties together，" Jing Ying，vice-president of Shanghai People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries，told Xinhua.



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