"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers And Death like autumn leaves." comes from the 82nd poem of "Birds" by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original English text is: "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers And Death like autumn leaves." This sentence is the only one translated by Zheng Zhenduo. "Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves."
Meaning
Life should be as dazzling as summer flowers, try your best to bloom, but in addition to the beauty in life, life will inevitably have imperfections and unsatisfactory endings , even if it is sadness like death, treat it indifferently, accept all endings quietly like autumn leaves, I have tried my best to experience the most beautiful thing, then there will be no regrets.
Author
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), a world-renowned litterateur, poet, social activist, philosopher and Indian nationalist .
Representative works include "Gitanjali", "Birds", "Sand in the Eyes", "Four People", "Family and the World", "The Gardener", "New Moon", "The Last Psalm" and "Gora" "Crisis of Civilization" etc. Among them, the English translation of "Gitanjali" was published, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.