The raindrop whispered to the jasmine, "Keep me in your heart for ever." The jasmine sighed, "Alas," and dropped to the ground.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The sunflower blushed to own the nameless flower as her kin. The sun rose and smiled on it, saying, "Are you well, my darling?"
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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This is a dream in which things are all loose and they oppress. I shall find them gathered in thee when I awake and shall be free.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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This life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship. In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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I think of other ages that floated upon the stream of life and love and death and are forgotten, and I feel the freedom of passing away.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, "I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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When I travelled to here and to there, I was tired of thee, O Road, but now when thou leadest me to everywhere I am wedded to thee in love.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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"WHAT language is thine, O sea?" "The language of eternal question." "What language is thy answer, O sky? "The language of eternal silence."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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