Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 846

Age not on your head at all the burden of the world; devotion itself compels you to cast away everything. To make the beggar’s calling a trade is the act of a fool; how can a man live in the bazaar, and put away desires from him? A poet without the gift is a man of milk and water.
Tuka says, Be either a sage or a downright clown.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents