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Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

— Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds (1916)

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More quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

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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