Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian Poet
Date of Birth: May 6, 1861
Date of Death: August 7, 1941
Nationality: Indian

Quotes

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore