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
looks
Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
motivational broken-heart joy
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
eye anchors house
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
beautiful hands people
The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.
prayer self expansion
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
stars dwelling space
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
passion phoenix ashes
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
freedom liberty strings
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
laughing storm together
Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous
soul everyday traveller
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
eye clouds hands
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,
heart secret speak
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.
regret children justification
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
yellow tree silent
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.