Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.
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Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

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It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men ut...

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Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

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

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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

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To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.

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It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.

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But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.

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A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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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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In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its appare...

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The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words fail. Its power lies in the region of the inexpressible; it tells us what the words cannot.

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The West in the voice of her thundering cannon had said at the door of Japan, Let there be a nation—and there was a Nation. And now that it has come into existence, why do you not feel in your heart of hearts a pure feeling of gladness and say that...

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Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches,...

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Yet when, one day, standing on the outskirts of Yokohama town, bristling with its display of modern miscellanies, I watched the sunset in your southern sea, and saw its peace and majesty among your pine-clad hills,—with the great Fujiyama growing f...

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Author Bio

  • NameRabindranath Tagore
  • DescriptionBengali polymath
  • AliasesRab?ndran?tha Th?kura; Tagore
  • BornMay 7, 1861
  • DiedAugust 7, 1941
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPainter; Polymath; Poet; Composer; Playwright; Essayist; Philosopher
  • WorksGitanjali; The Home And The World
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature