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
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
melt stand sun
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
morning lunch sunrise
A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.
spiritual sunset sleep
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.
earth sun skylarks
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
eagles sun nests
And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
pain struggle sun
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
shadow sun turns
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
sunset rainbow soul
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
flower faces sun
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
inspirational sunshine lightning
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
filled laughter rises
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
asking country desert oasis politician
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert