Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.

We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that reflects no light, that is blind to the infinite. Our self is loud with its own discordant clamour - it is not the tuned harp whose chords vibrate with the music of the eternal. Sighs of discontent and weariness of failure, idle regrets for the past and anxieties for the future are troubling our shallow hearts because we have not found our souls, and the self-revealing spirit has not been manifest within us. Hence our cry.

The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.