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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes and Poems

You smiled and talked to me of nothing
and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying,
and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded.

My whole body and my limbs
have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;
and if the end comes here, let it come
---let this be my parting word.
At the immortal touch of thy hands
my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward,
feeling your mercy in my success alone;
but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
The cobweb pretends to catch dew-drops and catches flies.
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

I feel that all the stars shine in me.
The world breaks into my life like a flood.
The flowers blossom in my body.
All the youthfulness of land and water smokes like an incense in my heart;
and the breath of all things plays on my thoughts as on a flute.

This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day.
The fish in the water is silent,
the animal on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing,
But Man has in him the silence of the sea,
the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

"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.

Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air.

The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.