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
eye thinking sight
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
love inspirational relationship
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
kindness names mirrors
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
sweet confused soul
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
language seven
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
life wisdom eye
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
dream spring heart
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
spiritual wind tree
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
inspirational stars greatness
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
love friendship fields
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
vision singing ants
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
democracy half guilty
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
pride men giving
Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
joy sorrow
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.