Rabindranath Tagore, The Home And The World Quotes

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you, " he replied.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]