Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and philosopher, renowned for his profound insights into love and humanity, notably through his work 'Gitanjali'.

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Born
May 7, 1861
Died
August 7, 1941
Quotes
435
Rank
#50

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"We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality."

Life Dream Greatness
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"The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet."

Song Heart Agony
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"The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest."

Summer Autumn Nests
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"If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love."

Prayer Heart Waiting
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"It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed."

People Shame Ashamed
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"I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership."

Giving Answers
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"The greed for fruit misses the flower."

Flower Greed Missing
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"Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."

Pain Life And Death Joy
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"This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving."

Queens Kings Night
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"Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)"

God Mean Self
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"Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves."

Children Heart Trying
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"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."

Sky Tree Soil
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"God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay."

God Quality Decay
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"If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?"

Death Men Order
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"Truth reveals itself in beauty."

Truth
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"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

Song Procrastination Instruments
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"Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many."

Prayer Play May
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"When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere."

Past Self Lust
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"When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away."

Death Life And Love Past
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"Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him."

God Men Giving
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