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Rabindranath Tagore quotes

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) of Calcutta, Bengal, India was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, political activist, and composer whose works influenced succeeding generations in his home country and around the world. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Asian Nobel laureate.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Death [Nirvana] is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- 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.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight,
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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