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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.

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.

Rabindranath Tagore
Book, Heart, Mind

According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspiration, Views, Law
Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.29, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Rabindranath Tagore
Night, Surface, Floats
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

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

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Life And Love, Past

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Rabindranath Tagore
Nature, Stars, Simple
Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Rabindranath Tagore
Voice, Moments, Everlasting
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

Rabindranath Tagore
Queens, Kings, Night
Rabindranath Tagore (1961). “The wayfaring poet”

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

Rabindranath Tagore
Stars, Healing, Clouds
"Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

For man is by nature an artist.

Rabindranath Tagore
Nature, Artist, Men

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dream, Dark, Mind

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore
Country, Father, Heaven
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

Rabindranath Tagore
Pain, Heart, Eye
Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.72, GENERAL PRESS

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Heart, Gains, Mystery
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.3, Rabindranath Tagore

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Dawn, Lamps

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

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Believe, Fall, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

Rabindranath Tagore
Tears, World, Cry
Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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
Country, Worship, Curse
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Echoes, Prove, Originals
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.408, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Broken, Doe
Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Rabindranath Tagore
Nature, Land, Space
"Jivan-smitri", 2013.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore
Patience, Persistence, Water
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Immortal Life, Life Is
Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Rabindranath Tagore
Beach, Listening, Done
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

Rabindranath Tagore
Gazing, Gone, World

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