混血儿

I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings I love my fellow beings and I prize their love. Yet I have been chosen by destiny to ply my boat there where the current is against me. What irony of fate is that I should be preaching cooperation of cultures between East and West on this side of the sea just as the moment when the doctrine of non-cooperation is preached on the other side? - Rabindranath Tagore, The Mahatma and the Poet, p. 58