Famous quotes from Rabindranath Tagore's poetry collection The following are excerpted from "The Birds" 1. When a person smiles, the world loves him; when a person laughs, the world becomes afraid of him. 2. What you see is not yourself, what you see is your shadow. 3. I didn’t choose the best, the best chose me. 4. How the bird wishes it was a cloud, how the cloud wishes it were a flying bird. 5. The waterfall sang; "When I found freedom, I found my song." 6. When we are humbler, we are closer to nobility. 7. Make life as gorgeous as summer flowers and death as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. 8. The road also feels lonely amidst the crowds because it has never been loved by sleep. 9. Power boasts of its devilish power, but is ridiculed by withered leaves and fleeting clouds. 10. The "great" walk side by side with the humble calmly, but the "ordinary" don't keep company with them. 11. Don’t complain about your delicious food because you have no appetite. 12. Man cannot easily reveal himself in history, he must struggle upward in it. 13. We misunderstand the world, but say that the world has deceived us. 14. The humble truth can speak out righteously, but the great truth maintains great silence. 15. Getting together may cause pain, but separation may keep possessions. 16. Praise shames me because I secretly ask for it. 17. Life is richer because of losing that love. 18. Once a bird's wings are decorated with gold, it can no longer fly in the sky. 19. The bright moon fills the sky with clear light, but leaves the dark shadow to itself. 20. When we love this world, we truly live in this world. 21. Let the celebrities of the deceased be famous forever, and the love of the living be endless. 22. If you shed tears because you missed the sun, you will also miss the stars. 23. Our desires bring the brilliant colors of the rainbow to a life that is nothing but clouds. The following is excerpted from "The Gardener's Collection" 1. I asked for what I couldn't get, and I got what I didn't ask for. 2. Allow me to sit beside you and ask my lips to do what they can do in silence and dim starlight. 3. We held each other's hands and fell in love with our eyes, thus starting the recording of our hearts. It is a moonlit night in March, the air is filled with the sweet scent of impatiens, my flute is forgotten on the earth, and your garland has not been woven. This love between you and me is as simple as a song. Your red veil makes my eyes intoxicated. The frangipani wreath you wove for me fascinates me like a compliment. This is a game of giving and taking, showing what is hidden, some smiles, some slight shyness, and some sweet useless struggles. This love between you and me is as simple as a song. There is no mystery beyond reality, no striving for the impossible, no shadows hiding behind beauty, no groping in the dark depths. This love between you and me is as simple as a song. We do not stray from all words into everlasting silence, we do not reach out into the void and ask for something beyond hope. What we give and what we receive is enough. We do not indulge in pleasure so much that we squeeze out the wine of pain. The love between you and me is as simple as a song. 4. "Believe in love, even if it brings sadness. Don't close your heart." "Ah, no, my friend, your words are flashing and I can't understand them." "The heart is only meant to follow a moment. A tear and a song are sent, my love." "Ah, no, my friend, I cannot understand your words." "The lotus blooms in the sun and loses everything it has in the eternal eastern mist. It will no longer be in bud. " "Ah, no, my friend, your words are flashing, I can't understand them. " The following is excerpted from "The Collection of Flowing Fireflies" 1. The sun opens the door of the world to me, and the light of love opens the world to me. treasure house. 2. In the drama of life, I cannot understand the significance of my own role because I do not understand the roles played by others. 3. When a flower has shed all its petals, its fruit is discovered. 4. There is no trace of me in the sky, but I have flown through. The following is excerpted from "Fruit Gathering" 1. You rank me among the losers. I know I won't win and I won't quit fighting. I must jump in, even if I jump in, I will only sink to the bottom. I must take part in this struggle to destroy myself. I would stake everything I had, and when I lost my last penny, I would stake myself on it, and then, I thought, I would emerge victorious from total defeat. 2. I don’t want unbridled love. It is just like frothy wine, which will overflow from the cup in an instant and be lost in vain. Give me a love that is cool and pure, like your rain that bless the thirsty earth and fill the domestic pots. Give me a love that penetrates to the core of life and spreads like invisible sap through the branches of the tree of life, causing it to blossom and bear fruit. Give me a love that fills my heart with everlasting peace.