It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world [German translation]

It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world

and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky.

It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence

all nights from star to star

and becomes lyric

among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July.

It is this overspreading pain that deepens

into loves and desires,

into sufferings and joy in human homes;

and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs

through my poet's heart.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore