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i read this poem when i was eighteen. i was already in the throes of [unrequited] love and naturally it spoke to my heart then; the love has long since been replaced by ‘my one true love’ yet the poem - i have never forgotten it since. rabindranath tagore was famous for far more serious works and his significant contributions to literature and education. but for me he will always be the man who refused the nobel prize and wrote these priceless lines.

I would ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars,
And the world with its endless riches;

But I would be content with
The smallest corner of this earth if only you were mine.

-Rabindranath Tagore