Quote #37

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 are one-half woman and one-half dream. ~ 59

More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf. ~ 46
  2. 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
  3. To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. ~ 45
  4. 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…
  5. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ~ 45
  6. A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
  7. My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. ~ 31
  8. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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