Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

About Rabindranath Tagore:

Rabindranath Tagore is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.
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I never spoke — unless addressed — And then, 'twas brief and low — I could not bear to live — aloud — The Racket shamed me so — And if it had not been so far — And any one I knew Were going — I had often thought How noteless — I cou...

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A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow, And remember there was something else I was hoping for.

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Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shal...

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-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes...

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If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea wav...

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

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The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

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The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

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Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but...

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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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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