Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
Rabindranath Tagore (author’s English translation)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Stray Birds, 268 (1916); Complete numbered aphorism268 read with neighboring entries. Public-domain author translation explicitly credited on the title page. Original small-cap opening normalized to sentence case. Distinct from the already-existing summer-flowers quotation.
- Stray Birds, 268 (1916)
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