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“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore

28 <br class="br"> Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.”

Rabindranath Tagore

31 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

Rabindranath Tagore

61 <br class="br"> Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Home and the World

“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Home and the World

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Home and the World

“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The Home and the World

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

Rabindranath Tagore