The Post Office Quotes

“Tell him Sudha has not forgotten him.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office

“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office

“If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office

“Amal: It isn't sad. When they shut me in here first I felt the day was so long. Since the King's Post Office I like it more and more being indoors, and as I think I shall get a letter one day, I feel quite happy and then I don't mind being quiet and alone. I wonder if I shall make out what'll be in the King's letter?

Gaffer: Even if you didn't wouldn't it be enough if it just bore your name?”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office

“Of course, I'm dying to be about for ever so long. I'll ask the King to find me the polar star. I must have seen it often, but I don't know exactly which it is.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office