Poet Quotes

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"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Age considers; youth ventures."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Age considers; youth ventures."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

-- Rabindranath Tagore