It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun,… - Rabindranath Tagore

تعيشُ بعضُ الحوريات المتنكّرات
ولا يُعرَفُ أنّهُنّ حوريّات
إلا عندَ إختفائِهِنّ عن الأنظار.

Those who live in England, away from the East, have now got to recognize that Europe has completely lost her former moral prestige in Asia. She is no longer regarded as the champion throughout the world of fair dealing and the exponent of high principle, but rather as the upholder of Western race supremacy and the exploiter of those outside her own borders.

It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky.

It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all nights from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July.

It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and desires, into sufferings and joy in human homes; and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs through my poet's heart.