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Quotes from The Gardener — Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941 India

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12 quotes

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

The Gardener (1915)

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

The Gardener (1915)

The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

The Gardener (1915)

In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

The Gardener (1915)

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

The Gardener (1915)

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

The Gardener (1915)

Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?

The Gardener (1915)

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.

The Gardener (1915)

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

The Gardener (1915)

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

The Gardener (1915)

Open your doors and look abroad.

The Gardener (1915)

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

The Gardener (1915)

Attribution

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