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
flower life longing tear
The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.
wind tears skins
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
tears genius irritated
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
tears tongue
Love provided me with a tongue and tears.
friendship beautiful tears
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
laughter tears scoffers
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
judgement tears chains
Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.
hands tears skins
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
sea tears sacred
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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
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
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
forget whom
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.