If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

What it means

Grieving too long over what is gone blinds you to what has arrived. Night has its own light. When something ends, look up.

The source

"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars." Rabindranath Tagore said it in Stray Birds 6 (1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."

Rabindranath Tagore, 1916, Stray Birds 6 (1916). Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Bengali poet, composer and teacher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He rendered his own short poems into English in Gitanjali and Stray Birds.

Questions

What does "If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars." mean?

Grieving too long over what is gone blinds you to what has arrived. Night has its own light. When something ends, look up.

Who said "If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."?

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Source: Stray Birds 6 (1916).

What is the original wording?

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars (Rabindranath Tagore, 1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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