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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The stone will melt in tears, because I can’t remain closed to you forever. I can’t escape without being conquered. From the blue sky an eye will gaze down, to summon me in silence. I will receive death utterly at your feet.

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Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away...

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TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first ...

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of...

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

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YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

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I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and ...

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous wav...

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Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

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Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

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

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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of the organized selfishness of Nationalism as its religion, never to gloa...

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If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.

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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; ...

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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