Song Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

— Rabindranath Tagore

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

— Rabindranath Tagore

“In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“When Death comes and whispers to me, “Your days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt…

— Rabindranath Tagore

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“THE TAME BIRD WAS IN A CAGE THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest. They…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change…

— Rabindranath Tagore