Favourite Tagore Quotes

[symphony]

Please share ur favourite quotes by Tagore here. The best ones are from "Sparks" i suppose.

Here's my favourite ones-

My thoughts, like sparks,
Ride on winged surprises
Carrying a single laughter.

The tree gazes in love at its beautiful shadow
Who is his own and yet whom he can never grasp.

Thats all that came up to my mind at the moment, may be I'll add more later.

[littlelit]

I haven't read much of Tagore. But this one is my favourite so far. It is more a paragraph than a quote from a short story called 'The Postmaster':
"O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again"

[Dipen Guha]

" This abstract being, the Nation is ruling India. We have seen in our country some brand of tinned food advertised as entirely made and packed without being touched by hand. But we, who are governed, are not a mere abstraction. we, on our side, are individuals with living sensibilities. What comes to us in the shape of mere bloodless policy may pierce into the very core of our life, may threaten the whole future of our people with a perpetual helplessness of emasculation, and yet may never touch the chord of humanity on the other side, or touch it in the most inadequetely feedle manner. Such whole wholesale and universal acts of fearful responsibility man can never perform, with such a degree of systematic unawerness where he is an individual human being."
-------Nationalism : Rabindranath Tagore

[vyas22]

"Please share ur favourite quotes by Tagore here. The best ones are from "Sparks" i suppose."

Here's my favourite one - Its a complete poem - specially relevant metaphorically in today's virtually converged world - I dedicate it to all the literature lovers :

'On the seashore...... of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.
They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.
The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children'

Thats all that came up to my mind at the moment, may be I'll add more later.