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
rights vigor strange
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
creative life-is
Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.
philosophy science technology
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
stones foundation structure
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
faces mask
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.
knowledge shadow
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
mirrors people gazing
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
dream heart night
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.
vision ability
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
made tombs
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.