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
dream fantasy slave
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
soul body harps
Your body is the harp of the soul.
paradise longing
The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
men guilt links
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
children parenting yesterday
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
noble accomplish
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
tears genius irritated
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
laughter sadness heart
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
night blood darkness
The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.
lying self matter
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
hate heart my-heart
Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
wise laughter men
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"
kings heart men
When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
learning writing men
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."