We [poets] set men free from their desires.

Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

Topics: Desire Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or...

$Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or...$

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the...

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the...

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the...

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the...

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed...

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed...

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain...

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain...

We live in the world when we love it.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but...

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but...

Those who own much have much to fear

Those who own much have much to fear

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of...

Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of...

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought...

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought...

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is...

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that...

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of...

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of...