{"author":"Rabindranath Tagore","author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore","total_quotes":117,"quotes":[{"text":"The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It was owing to my own weakness that I indulged in such idolatry. I was too greedy. I created an angel of Bimala, in order to exaggerate my own enjoyment. But Bimala is what she is. It is preposterous to expect that she should assume the role of an angel for my pleasure. The Creator is under no obligation to supply me with angels, just because I have an avidity for imaginary perfection.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["angel-in-the-house","couple","ideal-wife","men","women"],"id":4979,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["wisdom"],"id":8500,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"Those who own much have much to fear.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["own","who","those "],"id":12775,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["aim","choice","goal"],"id":16600,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"I have never been able to make out,' I began, 'why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["men","poetry","women"],"id":17747,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["life","living","poetry"],"id":18357,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["self-realization","spirituality"],"id":20151,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["duality","european-music","harmony","indian-music","night-and-day","raga"],"id":26353,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["listening","effort","trees "],"id":28121,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"},{"text":"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.","author":"Rabindranath Tagore","tags":["ambition","human-nature","life","love","truth"],"id":28378,"author_id":"Rabindranath+Tagore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":117,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}