Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house-do not pass by like a dream.

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

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

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

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.