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Stray Birds
Rabindranath Tagore
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THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
51YOUR idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
52MAN does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.
53WHILE the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin, the moon rises, and the glass lamp, with a bland smile, calls her, "My dear, dear sister."
54LIKE the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
55MY day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
56LIFE is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
57WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
58THE sparrow is sorry for. . . Read More
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I don't really know how to review poems Because I am always in the confusion about deciphering or unearthing the real meaning behind them. Whenever I read poems by great poets like Rabindranath Tagore, I feel inadequate with my life for not tasting the simple beauty of life woven in a single sentenc
"Stray birds of the summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words . . . "
How better can a poetry start . . ? Every sentence you read will
It is the most mesmerizing poetry I have ever read and no I am not just saying this because it captured my imagination. I am saying this because it sent me to a new realm of imagination.
The way it has been written, makes you feel what the poet would have felt while writing this piece of literature
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars."
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Tagore is pr
"In the moon, thou sendest thy love letter to me" said the night to the sun
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
More such thoughts, observations lay within this book.
Grab it. Read it. It's worth it.
Whenever I read a book by Rabindranath Tagore, I read each sentence at least two times to decipher the depth of the thoughts concealed in his words.
Stray Birds is a collection of some 300 one to two lines poem. The 1 or 2 lines poems has so much profundity that I read some of them at least 5 times.