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
again deeper meet shall sing twilight
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
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
burned cup deeper holds joy sorrow wine
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
again australian-actor deep given giving heart shall sorrow truth weeping
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 you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
binds brother deep love mountain sister sit strong three together
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
dream awakening deeper
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
causes heavens hidden voice
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
body less meet sun wind
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment
australian-actor dreams tomorrow yesterday
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand
assigned cute-love dream fulfil furthest intimate keeping labour life love loving sweet-love truth work
When you work you fulfil 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, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
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
forget whom
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
child green last leading line poem putting sheep
Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem