Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 13

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• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

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  Inspiration, Views, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.29, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

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  Song, Procrastination, Instruments

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• From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

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  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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• The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

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  Book, Heart, Mind

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• He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

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  Wall, Justice, Care

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Creative Unity”, p.61, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

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  Night, Surface, Floats

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

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  Voice, Moments, Everlasting

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

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  Stars, Healing, Clouds

  "Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

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  Death, Life And Love, Past

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• In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

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  Dream, Dark, Mind

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

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  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

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  Song, Names, Burden

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.586, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

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  Queens, Kings, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore (1961). “The wayfaring poet”

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• Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

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  Country, Father, Heaven

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.72, GENERAL PRESS

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• The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

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  Heart, Gains, Mystery

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.3, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

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  Death, Dawn, Lamps

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• Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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  Patience, Persistence, Water

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

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

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  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

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  Country, Worship, Curse

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

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  Tears, World, Cry

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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• The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

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  Song, Broken, Doe

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

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  Echoes, Prove, Originals

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.408, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

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  Beach, Listening, Done

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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

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  Nature, Land, Space

  "Jivan-smitri", 2013.

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