"WHAT language is thine, O sea?" "The language of eternal question." "What language is thy answer, O sky? "The language of eternal silence."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Thou hast led me through my crowded travels of the day to my evening's loneliness. I wait for its meaning through the stillness of the night.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Your smile was the flowers of your own fields, your talk was the rustle of your own mountain pines, but your heart was the woman that we all know.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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I live in this little world of mine and am afraid to make it the least less. Lift me into thy world and let me have the freedom gladly to lose my all.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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They light their own lamps and sing their own words in their temples. But the birds sing thy name in thine own morning light, – for thy name is joy.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin, the moon rises, and the glass lamp, with a bland smile, calls her, "My dear, dear sister."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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