Life
By profession, Jatindranath was an engineer. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1911 from the Shibpur Engineering College (now Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur) and started working as an overseer. However, he spent most of his time writing. Jatindranath Sengupta an eminently original poet in Bengali literature.
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“Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Through the certain prospect of death, a precious, sweet- smelling drop of levity might be mixed into every life—but now you strange pharmacist-souls have turned it into a foul-tasting drop of poison through which all life is made repulsive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Time, fall no more.
Let that be life time falls no more. The threat
Of time we in our own courage have forsworn.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)