Rabindranath Tagore on Music - Prose

- The Purest Form of Art

- Selected Quotes

From Short Story, "The Victory"

Poetry with Musical References

Musical References from "Gitanjali"

Musical References from "Stray Birds"

   
 

Selected Quotes

"The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words."

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

"I believe that there is an ideal hovering over the earth, an ideal of that Paradise which is not the mere outcome of imagination, but the ultimate reality towards which all things are moving. I believe that this vision of Paradise is to be seen in the sunlight, and the green of the earth, in the flowing streams, in the beauty of springtime and the repose of a winter morning. Everywhere in this earth the spirit of Paradise is awake and sending forth its voice."

"Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits."

"Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song."