The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
Rabindranath TagoreAnd joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.
Rabindranath TagoreA butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
Rabindranath Tagore[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy
Rabindranath TagoreThere is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.
Rabindranath Tagore