I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any directio…

Rabindranath Tagore
281 citations
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
Time
19

More Author Quotes

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it do … ▶
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore (2007). Stray Birds, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). Poems, p.401, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, Look round! I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). Essays, lectures, addresses, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & D … ▶

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes