If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.


My Life In My Words (ed. Penguin UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9788184753974

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists,...

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists,...

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists,...

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists,...