Fireflies Quotes

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Open your door to that which must go,
for the loss becomes unseemly when obstructed.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.”

The sea writes in foam again and again and wipes off the lines in a boisterous despair.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“When Death comes and whispers to me, “Your days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and not in mere time.” He will ask, “Will your songs remain?” I shall say, “I know not, but this I know, that often when I sang I found my eternity.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Pride engraves his frowns in stones; 
love offers her surrender in flowers.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“My clouds, sorrowing in the dark,
forget that they themselves
have hidden the sun.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The blue of the sky longs for the earth’s green; 
the wind between them sighs, “Alas.”

Day’s pain, muffled by its own glare,

burns among stars in the night.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The world speaks to me in pictures, my soul answers in music.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
― Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“In its swelling pride
The bubble doubts the truth of the sea
And laughs and bursts into emptiness”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“to justify their own spilling of ink
they spell the day as night”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“My flower, seek not thy paradise
in a fool’s buttonhole.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“In love I pay my endless debt to you for what you are.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“The world is the ever-changing foam that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“My clouds, sorrowing in the dark, 
forget that they themselves have hidden the sun.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“Like my heart’s pain that has long missed its meaning, 
the sun’s rays robed in dark hide themselves under the ground.
Like my heart’s pain at love’s sudden touch, 
they change their veil at the spring’s call
and come out in the carnival of colors, 
in flowers and leaves.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims