Quote #36

The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf. ~ 46

More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. ~ 45
  2. O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts. . . You a…
  3. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ~ 45
  4. In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. ~ 74
  5. My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. ~ 31
  6. Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one singl…
  7. 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
  8. A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

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