Agra-The city of Taj -II (The wonder called "Tajmahal")

                        The wonder called Taj Mahal

One is always perplexed when it comes to define the beauty of the wonder called Tajmahal. There is no better way then to begin by famous quotes on this wonder marvel and its breathtaking pictures , some of which especially the aerial views are rare as aerial views are not generally permitted.

 

“The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs and makes sun and moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice has been made to display, thereby, the Creator's glory."- Shah Jehan

 

"Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages". American novelist, Bayard Taylor

 

“The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

 

"It appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art." Hodges –The British painter

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it. "-Bill Clinton

"If I had never done anything else in India, I have written my name here, and the letters are a living joy."
Lord Curzon, the British Governor-General

 

"Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones." English Poet, Sir Edwin Arnold.

"I cannot tell what I think. I do not know how to criticize such a building but I can tell what I feel. I would die tomorrow to have such another over me."
British officer, Colonel Sleeman's wife

"Properly speaking the Sultan's memory is more perpetuated by this building than that of his favorite, for everyone who saw it would involuntarily ask who created it?" -Ida Pfeiffer

 

"After hearing its praises ever since I had been in India I felt that its beauty rather exceeded than fell short of my expectations." Anglican Bishop in Calcutta, Reginald Heber

 

"A massive marble structure, without weight, as if formed of ether, perfectly rational and at the same time entirely decorative, it is perhaps the greatest art work which the forming spirit of mankind has ever brought forth." German Philosopher, Count Hermann Keyserling

 "On a white marble terrace an immaterial light shell like the apartments of the blessed, whose foot does not touch ordinary ground." Swiss Art Historical Luminary, Heinrich Wolfflin