Rabindranath Tagore quotes about death
Indian Poet, Composer, Writer May 6, 1861 – August 7, 1941
Rabindranath Tagore quotes in frenchRabindranath Tagore quotes in russian
Rabindranath Tagore quotes in german
Cite this Page: Citation
Quotes
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my...
Rabindranath Tagore
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beautythat can modulate their isolation into aharmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
Rabindranath Tagore
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.
Rabindranath Tagore
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it isbeyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of dayand night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time andspace, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in yourpalpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoeto kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the...
Rabindranath Tagore
Popular Author
Related Authors
-
Bill Joy Businessman
-
Campbell Scott Actor
-
Gene Ween Musician
-
JH
Jeff Hawkins Inventor
-
JP
John Philpot Curran Public Servant
-
MH
Matthew Hale Historian
-
Miles Franklin Writer
-
PK
Pauline Kael Critic
-
RT
Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Composer, Writer
-
RB
Ruth Buzzi Actress