Rabindranath Tagore
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.Collection: Song
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.Collection: Love
If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.Collection: Journey
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.Collection: Pain
The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.Collection: Flower
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.Collection: Tree
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.Collection: Gratitude
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.Collection: Winning
The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.Collection: Taken
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.Collection: Freedom
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.Collection: Jealous
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.Collection: Mistake
Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?Collection: Reading
The greed for fruit misses the flower.Collection: Flower
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.Collection: Moon
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.Collection: Passing On
Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.Collection: Blame
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.Collection: Sacrifice
We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.Collection: Children
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.Collection: Children
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.Collection: Men
Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.Collection: Children
The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.Collection: Stars
The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.Collection: Morning
Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.Collection: Running
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, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!Collection: Inspirational
You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.Collection: Love
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.Collection: Beautiful
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.Collection: Shame
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.Collection: Mistake
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.Collection: Love
Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.Collection: Laughing
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.Collection: Morning
God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.Collection: God
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.Collection: Being Alone
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.Collection: Men
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.Collection: Wisdom
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.Collection: Inspirational
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.Collection: Fighting
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.Collection: Past
The movement of life has its rest in its own music.Collection: Inspirational
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.Collection: Music
This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: House
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.Collection: Positive
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."Collection: Death
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!Collection: Country