Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

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

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?

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.

Yes, this is the logic of the Nation. And it
will never heed the voice of truth and goodness.
It will go on in its ring-dance of moral corruption,
linking steel unto steel, and machine unto
machine; trampling under its tread all the sweet
flowers of simple faith and the living ideals of
man.

কে মোরে ফিরাবে অনাদরে
কে মোরে ডাকিবে কাছে,
কাহার প্রেমের বেদনায আমার মূল্য আছে,
এ নিরন্তর সংশযে হায পারিনে যুঝিতে — আমি তোমারেই শুধু পেরেছি বুঝিতে..

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

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

If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.

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

Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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.