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
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . . but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
night veils dawn
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
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A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
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It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.
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That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
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Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
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Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.