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
blind darkness empty indeed knowledge life save urge vain work
Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
life mind produces singer speak
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind
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.
long mystery mystery-of-life
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
life spiritual men
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
life unseen our-lives
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
life butterfly dark
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
life angel devil
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
life poet prose
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
life love-is undivided-love
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
life heart secret
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
life love-is eyes-and-love
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
life love-you men
All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
life loses
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.