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“My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”

Rabindranath Tagore book Chokher Bali

“The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true,
the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony
of wishing in my heart…”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“We cross infinity with every step;
we meet eternity in every second.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“WE live in this world when we love it.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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 (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds