8 Rabindranath Tagore quotes on love and longing

May 8, 2024 ET Online

Temple of love

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. Image Source: BCCL

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. Image Source: BCCL

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Image Source: BCCL

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. Image Source: BCCL

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. Image Source: BCCL

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Image Source: BCCL

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. Image Source: BCCL

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved. Image Source: BCCL