A Flight of Swans Quotes

“In the impenetrable night,
All the sorrows of the world,
All its sins and evils,
Its tears and cruelties,
Have risen in tumult, overflowing their banks
And blaspheming the skies.
Yet, O fearless, O sorrow-stricken one,
With the groanings of the earth resounding in your ears,
Accept the mad evil days with fortitude,
And with hope undimmed in your soul,
Hold on for the new shore.

- Poem 37”
― Rabindranath Tagore, A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balākā

“I am a pilgrim of the Unknown -
That is my joy.
It raises and resolves
All my conflicts.
No sooner has the Known bound me fast in her net,
Than appears the Unknown
And it bewilders me!

- Poem 30”
― Rabindranath Tagore, A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balākā

“How I have noiselessly floated down the stream of Time,
Skipping from life to life,
Changing from form to form.
In the night, in the morning,
All I received, I gave away
In ever new gifts,
In ever new songs.

- Poem 8”
― Rabindranath Tagore, A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balākā

“At the ebb of day comes the tide of night
Carrying myriads of star-flowers
Floating on its dark waters.

- Poem 1”
― Rabindranath Tagore, A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balākā