Rabindranath Tagore Quotes


Rabindranath Tagore(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms.

1. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

2. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

3. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

4. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

5. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

6. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

7. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

8. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

9. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

10. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

11.I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

12. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

13. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

14.Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

15.By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
16. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

17. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

18.Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name

19.A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

20.If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

21.Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

22. Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.


23. We live in the world when we love it.

24.Age considers; youth ventures.

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