879 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

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 waves of leaves and flowers.

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

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 time to sing.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you," he replied.

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

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

পণ্ডিত বলছেন-বুড়ো চন্দ্রটা, নিষ্ঠুর চতুর হাসি তার,মৃত্যুদূতের মতো গুঁড়ি মেরে আসছে সেপৃথিবীর পাঁজরের কাছে।একদিন দেবে চরম টান তার সাগরে পর্বতে;মর্তলোকে মহাকালের নূতন খাতায়পাতা জুড়ে নামবে একটা শূন্য,গিলে ফেলবে দিনরাতের জমাখরচ;মানুষের কীর্তি হারাবে অমরতার ভান,তার ইতিহাসে লেপে দেবেঅনন্ত রাত্রির কালি।

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.