Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibranwas a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1883
CityBsharri, Lebanon
CountryLebanon
sensitive
All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand...
roots growth crowns
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
self towers foundation
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
eye hands taught
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
jesus father clouds
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
ignorance weary offspring
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.
spiritual wisdom journey
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
song mute grain
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
crush powerful flower
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.
flower animal feet
You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.
spirit morrow
For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.
flower snow storm
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
love-is two flames
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
silence talkative
I learnt silence from the talkative