The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
Rabindranath TagoreThe first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.
Rabindranath TagoreLife finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Rabindranath TagorePoems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath TagoreOh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.
Rabindranath TagoreA message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.
Rabindranath Tagore