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Quotes from Fireflies — Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941 India

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10 quotes

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it. Wishing to hearten a timid lamp
great night lights all her stars.

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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation
into a harmony with the whole.

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

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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.

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Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.

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Light finds her treasure of colours
through the antagonism of clouds.

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The one without second is emptiness,
the other one makes it true.

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I touch God in my song
as the hill touched the far-away sea
with its waterfall.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.