Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 14

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

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  Dream, House, Beloved

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Death, Dawn, Lamps

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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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• 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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• [The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

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  Air, Voice, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.741, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

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  Book, Bird, Rooms

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.14, 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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• Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

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  God, Journey, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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  Change, Country, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.37, GENERAL PRESS

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

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  Freedom, Tyrants, Liberty

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.442, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

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  Guests, Steps, Speed

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.82, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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