There are tracts in my life that are bare and silent. They are the open spaces where my busy days had their light and air.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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"In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun. "I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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My heart beats her waves at the shore of the world and writes upon it her signature in tears with the words, "I love thee."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The mystery of creation is like the darkness of night - it is great. Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The smell of the wet earth in the rain rises like a great chant of praise from the voiceless multitude of the insignificant.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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I feel thy gaze upon my heart this moment like the sunny silence of the morning upon the lonely field whose harvest is over.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The wasp thinks that the honey-hive of the neighbouring bees is too small. His neighbours ask him to build one still smaller.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Dear friend, I feel the silence of your great thoughts of may a deepening eventide on this beach when I listen to these waves.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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"How may I sing to thee and worship, O Sun?" asked the little flower. "By the simple silence of thy purity," answered the sun.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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