Tagore Quotes

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift

“আমরা আরম্ভ করি, শেষ করি না; আড়ম্বর করি, কাজ করি না; যাহা অনুষ্ঠান করি তাহা বিশ্বাস করি না; যাহা বিশ্বাস করি তাহা পালন করি না; ভূরিপরিমাণ বাক্যরচনা করিতে পারি, তিলপরিমাণ আত্মত্যাগ করিতে পারি না; আমরা অহংকার দেখাইয়া পরিতৃপ্ত থাকি, যোগ্যতালাভের চেষ্টা করি না; আমরা সকল কাজেই পরের প্রত্যাশা করি, অথচ পরের ত্রুটি লইয়া আকাশ বিদীর্ণ করিতে থাকি; পরের অনুকরণে আমাদের গর্ব, পরের অনুগ্রহে আমাদের সম্মান, পরের চক্ষে ধূলিনিক্ষেপ করিয়া আমাদের পলিটিকস্‌, এবং নিজের বাক্‌চাতুর্যে নিজের প্রতি ভক্তিবিহ্বল হইয়া উঠাই আমাদের জীবনের প্রধান উদ্দেশ্য।”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world.
But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free.
Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen.
If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Be kind. It will reveal your true inner beauty.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Modernisasi pada akhirnya memang suatu permainan kekuatan. Ada yang tergusur, ada yang menggusur. Ada yang menang, ada yang telantar lemah. Tapi jangan salah kira: di zaman seperti ini, yang lemah tak akan tinggal jadi gurun: “yang lemah berbahaya bagi yang kuat, sebagaimana pasir hanyut berbahaya bagi si gajah,“ kata Tagore tentang dunia modern.”
― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 1

“Magical morning lights, dreamy sky,
Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes”
― Debasish Mridha

“Good morning is such a beautiful song; it begins the magic of a wonderful day.”
― Debasish Mridha

“El amor es como las mariposas:si tratas de alcanzarlas desesperadamente, se alejan; pero si te quedas quieto, se posan sobre ti".”
― Tagore, Rabindranath

“Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn’t success, then what is?”
― Debasish Mridha

“This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Let prosperity flow into you like the waves of love and kindness that fill your heart and mind.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’ (‘Rain falls / The leaf trembles) n Iswrchandra Vidyasagar’s Bengali primer Barna Parichay (Introducing the Alphabet). There are at least two revealing things about this citation. The first is that, as Bengali scholars have remarked, Tagore’s memory, and predilection, lead him to misquote and rewrite the lines. The actual rhyme is in sadhu bhasha, or ‘high’ Bengali: ‘Jal paritechhe / pata naritechhe’ (‘Rain falleth / the leaf trembleth’). This is precisely the sort of diction that Tagore chose for the English Gitanjali, which, with its these and thous, has so tried our patience. Yet, as a Bengali poet, Tagore’s instinct was to simplify, and to draw language closer to speech. The other reason the lines of the rhyme are noteworthy, especially with regard to Tagore, is – despite their deceptively logical progression – their non-consecutive character. ‘Rain falls’ and ‘the leaf trembles’ are two independent, stand-alone observations: they don’t necessarily have to follow each other. It’s a feature of poetry commented upon by William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral: that it’s a genre that can get away with seamlessly joining two lines which are linked, otherwise, tenuously.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, On Tagore Reading the Poet Today

“Dhiren broke the silence by starting to hum a tune under his breath,,,, 'The smile of the moon has spilled over its banks'......I was filled with - with what? An affectionate contempt? A sense of ridicule? Shock that Dhiren, the earthy, self-styled tough guy, had any truck with the kind of music he'd consider effeminate? Tagore seemed to be carried inside all Bengalis, regardless of class or social background, like some inheritable disease, silent, unknown, until it manifested itself at the unlikeliest of times. How irredeemably middle class all this was: The Little Red Book and On Practice on the one hand; on the other hand, the poetry of Jibanananda Das in his cloth sidebag and a coy, cloying Tagore song almost involuntary on his lips. There really was no hope of escape for us.

...... For god's sake, Mao by day and Tagore by moonlight?

Dhiren didn't miss a beat - That's quintessential Bengali soul for you.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.”
― Debasish Mridha

“It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby’s smile.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Be good to attract good.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A face without a smile is like a sky without a sun.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Let us dance with passion. Our hearts will be dancing with joy and the magic of the music.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Ah! Such a beautiful morning! Let us be the sunshine in someone’s life and fill her heart with untold joy.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Ah! Summer is here. Celebrate the lights, dance with the blooming flowers, swim with the heart touching waves, sing under the dreamy starlight, dance with the winds, fall in love with the blue sky and the simple joys of life.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“Wenn der Tag zur Nacht wird, verwandelt sich Paris, oh Paris, in eine Konstellation schimmernder Lichter, die den Himmel mit tausend selbst geschaffenen Sternen bemalen.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Die Howl Gang Legende

“Why are those tears in your eyes, my child?”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Crescent Moon

“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
― Rabindranath Tagore