More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. ~ 134
  2. Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ~ 4
  3. Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. ~ 51
  4. I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the…
  5. If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. ~ 6
  6. We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope. ~ 16
  7. This 'I' of mine toils hard, day and night, for a home which it knows as its own. Alas, there will be no end of its sufferings so long as i…
  8. Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. ~ 27

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