Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.

Rabindranath is the greatest man I have had the privilege to know. There has been no one like him anywhere on our globe for many centuries.

Abu'l-Ala is a poet many centuries ahead of his time.