Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

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

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

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

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

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

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

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

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

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

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

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.