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
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
soul body my-soul
This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?
spiritual laughing unkind
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
dawn east
Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
love enemy conquer
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
night darkness may
One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
occupation belief action
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
speed pursued
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
perspective may world
The highest virtue here may be least in another world.