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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Stray Birds - 1916

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Gardener - 1915

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad that I have had my flight.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: My Reminiscences - Sharps and Flats

Man is not entirely an animal. He aspires to a spiritual vision, which is the vision of the whole truth. This gives him the highest delight, because it reveals to him the deepest harmony that exists between him and his surroundings.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - 1916

The cloud gives all its gold
to the departing sun
and greets the rising moon
with only a pale smile.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - 1916

What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Jivan-Smitri

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Gitanjali - 1912

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Stray Birds - 1916

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Fugitive

Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fruit-Gathering

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

God honours me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Gitanjali - 1912

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Stray Birds - 1916

In the region of nature, which is the region of diversity, we grow by acquisition; in the spiritual world, which is the region of unity, we grow by losing ourselves, by uniting.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - 1916

In the mountain, stillness surges up
to explore its own height;
in the lake, movement stands still
to contemplate its own depth.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

My heart today smiles at its past night of tears
like a wet tree glistening in the sun
after the rain is over.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Gardener - 1915

Thou hast risen late, my crescent moon,
but my night bird is still awake to greet thee.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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— Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Fireflies - 1928