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
ignorant arguing foolish
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
love taken blessed
The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.
love past house
My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."
art steps art-is
Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
life thinking stones
Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
giving may
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
disputes knows
Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
heart creative sorrow
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.
praise
The envier praises me unknowingly.
wisdom suicide fun
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
cutting two mind
Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.
wisdom inspirational-love heart
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
jesus mind path
Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
judgement skins naked
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?