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
learns loves
They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
assigned curse dream fulfill furthest keeping labour loving truth work
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...
beauty eternity good itself true wealth
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
burns either flame force held passion reason rudder ruling sails standstill toss
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
deep deeper given giving heart joy shall sorrow
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. 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 shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When y
children daughters longing sons
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
answer flower seed soul
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
australian-actor cultivates knowledge seeds sow
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
alone asleep joy remember sorrow together
... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
melt stand sun
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
punishing thieves
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
commands hold instrument knew single stood string
Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments
friendship friends-or-friendship sharing sweetness
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.