Stray Birds is a collection of several hundred brief aphorisms and verses, written in English by Tagore after he had been moved by the short forms of Japanese poetry. Each piece is only a line or two, touching on love, nature, childhood, time, humility and the mystery of life. They can be read in any order and make a good book to dip into. Its brevity and gentle wisdom have kept it popular for over a century.
Quotes
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.