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Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Drunk, Joy
Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.77, Penguin Books India

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Men, Order
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Rabindranath Tagore
Brother, Stranger, Made
Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.12, Penguin Books India

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

Rabindranath Tagore
Impossible Things, Achievement, World
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Rabindranath Tagore
Simple, Feet, Flutes
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.13, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Rabindranath Tagore
Music, Two, Soul
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.259, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Rabindranath Tagore
Running, Children, Laughing
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.198, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual, Taken, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Rabindranath Tagore
Paper, Boat, Hours
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.449, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Rabindranath Tagore
Feet, Doe, Birth
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.44, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Rabindranath Tagore
Stars, Flower, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Rabindranath Tagore
Creativity, Creation, Modification
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.66, Ravenio Books

In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.

Rabindranath Tagore
Grieving, Doors, House
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Law, Oneness
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Flower, Men
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Harmony, Feels
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Miscellaneous writings”, p.1243, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Dream, House, Beloved
Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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
Lakes, Dew, Lotuses
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.406, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Sad, Air
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.451, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Men
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

Rabindranath Tagore
Summer, Song, Fall
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.397, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Procrastination, Instruments

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Wall, Justice, Care
Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Creative Unity”, p.61, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Tasks, Easy
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Rabindranath Tagore
People, Age, Realizing
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Cycle of Spring”, p.16, Sai ePublications

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