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Rabindranath Tagore — Portrait after a picture by Generalstabens litografiska anstalt (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath

1861–1941

22 quotes, most often on Love, God and Freedom.

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 prayer be granted.
Gitanjali (1912), 28
- Prayer
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
Stray Birds (1916), 51
- God
For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “Realisation in Love”
- Love
That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.
Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “The Realisation of the Infinite”
- Freedom
- Happiness
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
The Gardener (1913), 5
- Freedom
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Glimpses of Bengal (1921)
- Love
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action⁠—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear (1912)In context
- Freedom

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