Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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Rabindranath Tagore

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 7, 1861

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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.

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

Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

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Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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