Quotes from Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941 India
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
Gitanjali (1912)
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Gitanjali (1912)
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Gitanjali (1912)
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
Gitanjali (1912)
Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.** 95
Gitanjali (1912)
I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
Gitanjali (1912)