Stray Birds Quotes

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. ”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“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.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun.
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds