The scabbard is content to be dull when it protects the keenness of the sword.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The grass seeks her crowd in the earth. The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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My wishes are fools, they shout across thy songs, my Master. Let me but listen.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The day, with the noise of this little earth, drowns the silence of all worlds.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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God expects answers for the flowers he sends us, not for the sun and the earth.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The sun goes to cross the Western sea, leaving its last salutation to the East.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The sadness of my soul is her bride's veil. It waits to be lifted in the night.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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This sadness of my soul is her bride's veil. It waits to be lifted in the night.

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