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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

Rabindranath Tagore
Book, Bird, Rooms
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Pain, Life And Death, Joy

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Men, Giving
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.581, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Journey, Self

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Rabindranath Tagore
Joy, World, Cry

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Rabindranath Tagore
Guests, Steps, Speed
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.82, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

Rabindranath Tagore
Heart, Eye, Sight

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

Rabindranath Tagore
Afterlife, Gone, 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”

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Mean, Joy
Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone 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
Smile, Dream, Baby
Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Lovers, Slave
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Rabindranath Tagore
Change, Country, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.37, GENERAL PRESS

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Rabindranath Tagore
Time, Wealth, Clock
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.412, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Rabindranath Tagore
Peace, Pleasure, Made
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Change, Creative

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

Rabindranath Tagore
Truth
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.12, Sheba Blake Publishing

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dream, Song, Years
Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

Rabindranath Tagore
Thinking, Air, Giving

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Giving, Coins
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.407, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore
Stars, Men, Sky
Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated Edition)”, p.1867, GENERAL PRESS

Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Adventure, Self
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.580, Sahitya Akademi

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Ideas, Perfect, Joy
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.85, Rabindranath Tagore

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Rabindranath Tagore
Country
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.110, editionNEXT.com

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dream, Women, Heart
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”

My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Lying, Sleep
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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