Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1001

What! does not even a tree bend? A madman
forgets who and what he is; the man
who bears no fruit by admonition is like the dry
stump of a tree. What! are there not stones that
are as mute as sages? Tuka says, You may look on
fools as hard corn that will not cook.

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