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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.

— Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali (1912)

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God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

Gitanjali (1912)

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Stray Birds (1916)

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

Fireflies (1928)

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

The Gardener (1915)

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