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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Truth, Lying
"The Fourfold Way of India" by Rabindranath Tagore, 1924.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Art

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Real, Intimate Relationships

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Simple, Expression
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.76, Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Men, Objects
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.346, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Rabindranath Tagore
Music, Art, Singers

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Real, Creativity
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.69, Ravenio Books

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

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.

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.

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Prayer, Fear
Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Prayer, Mean
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”

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