Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

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

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

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

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.