Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Flower, Carpe Diem

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Being Single, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Love Is, Soul

• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Morning, Memories, Spring

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.520, Delphi Classics

• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds 81 - 90”

• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Summer, Rest In Peace

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.424, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• April, like a child,
  Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers,
  Wipes them away and forgets.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Children, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Education, Flower, Museums

  Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

• One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Flower, Adventure

• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

• God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Flower, Men

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

• Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Gratitude, Flower, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Flower, Dust

• Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Song, Pain

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.39, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• The greed for fruit misses the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Greed, Missing

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

• If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Morning, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.19, Read Books Ltd

• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Mean, Smell

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

• A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Flower, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

• The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Funeral, Mourn

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.94, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Flower, Earth

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