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
heart night silence
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
inspirational mountain limbs
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
spring drinking water
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
angel garden wings
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.
way mystery
life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.
life desire half
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
thank-you gratitude yoga
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
heart pride self
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
love twilight-zone prophet
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
love moving doe
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
inspirational-love grief wine
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
spiritual loneliness safety
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
sad spiritual strong
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
lying knowledge men
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.