It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could hardly be called a conversation, as I was doing all the talking and my imaginary companion all the listening. The poor fellow had no chance of speaking up for himself, for was not mine the power to compel him helplessly to answer like a fool? But what a night it was! How often have I tried to write of such, but never got it done! There was not a line of ripple on the river; and from away over there, where the farthest shore of the distant main stream is seen beyond the other edge of the midway belt of sand, right up to this shore, glimmers a broad band of moonlight. Not a human being, not a boat in sight; not a tree, nor blade of grass on the fresh-formed island sand-bank. It seemed as though a desolate moon was rising upon a devastated earth; a random river wandering through a lifeless solitude; a long-drawn fairy-tale coming to a close over a deserted world, –all the kings and the princesses, their ministers and friends and their golden castles vanished, leaving the Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers and the Unending Moor, over which the adventurous princes fared forth, wanly gleaming in the pale moonlight. I was pacing up and down like the last pulse-beats of this dying world. Every one else seemed to be on the opposite shore–the shore of life–where the British Government and the Nineteenth Century hold sway, and tea and cigarettes. . Rabindranath Tagore
About This Quote

The quote above is a short story written by Rudyard Kipling. The author begins by describing a night on a riverbank. After a few moments of thinking, he recounts his own thoughts as if they were being spoken by someone else. The poor man who was forced to listen was not able to respond or say anything. In some ways, this story illustrates the importance of listening to one another as well as the importance of being able to speak up for yourself whenever necessary.

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