Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 9

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• Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Reading, Years, Curiosity

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• The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Soul, Proud

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi

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• I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, My Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Blessed, World

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• The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Tyrants, Adults

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

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• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thankful, Encouragement, Power

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• The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Pain, Soul

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.415, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Darkness, Gold

  "Stray Birds".

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• 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

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• 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”

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• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Laughter, Light

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• You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Sea

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• God finds himself by creating.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Creating

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.607, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Running, Children

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

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• Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Cute, Men

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.245, Sahitya Akademi

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• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Humble, Humility, Great Teacher

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

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• ‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Eternity, Found

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• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unhappy, Sunflower, Dawn

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• My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Firefly, Dark, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.437, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sorry, Tails, Sparrows

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

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• If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Journey, Goal, Finding Yourself

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.52, Sahitya Akademi

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• I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Eye, Sight

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• Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Unspoken Words, Crowds

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• And because I love this life
  I know I shall love death as well
  The child cries out when
  From the right breast the mother
  Takes it away, in the very next moment
  To find in the left one
  Its consolation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Rest In Peace, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.47, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Littles, Being True, Begging

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.82, Routledge

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